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The Lessons of History by Will Durant | Conversation Starters The Lessons of History is book written by Will and Ariel Durant. It was first published in 1968. The Lessons of History gives readers a summary of the trends of history over a 5,000 year period of time. In the book the touch on the...

Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Tony Robbins | Conversation Starters Being unshakeable is a “state of mind” that we adopt when faced with storms that threaten us with financial ruin. But human nature makes us fear the worst. We could lose everything we worked hard for, and...

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer | Conversation Starters Writer Arthur Less is turning 50 and he just got a wedding invitation from his young ex-lover who is getting married to somebody else. Not wanting to be the butt of jokes, he accepts invitations from unheard of literary events outside...

The Paris Architect: by Charles Belfoure | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: The Paris Architect, Charles Belfoure's first fiction work, tells the story of an architect in Paris in 1942 during the Nazi occupations of France. Lucien Bernard is a non-Jew working as a craftsman...

From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned! Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States...

The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac.

The Last American Man Study Guide contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert. It includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney | Conversation Starters The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s debut novel, spins a tale of family dysfunction, self-absorption, fighting over an inheritance, the perils of drug abuse and addiction, and defining an individual’s role within a family unit....

Received wide acclaim in original Spanish publication. Finalist for the 2013 Premio Anagrama de Ensayo [Anagrama Award for Essays]

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov,...

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder | Conversation Starters Red Notice: A True Story of Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” is Bill Browder’s captivating memoir surrounding the time he spent in Russia and his...