Detailed Summaries of Great Literature

Detailed Summaries of Great Literature

Sport and Psychoanalysis: What Sport Reveals about Our Unconscious Desires, Fantasies, and Fears explores the intersection of sport and psychoanalysis, emphasizing the often-overlooked psycho-social dimensions underpinning the experience of sport. By challenging the idea that sport offers an “escape” from reality-a realm separate to the politics of everyday life-each chapter critically considers the unconscious desires, fantasies, and fears that underpin the sporting spectacle for...

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A journey into the subconscious minds of three people searching for answers and peace through personal turmoil.This volume collects the complete run of Psychoanalysis, recolored digitally using the original palette, featuring art by legendary comics talent Jack Kamen and stories by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)!Collects Psychoanalysis issues #1-#4.

This book is not meant to demean, degrade, deride or any other “de” you can imagine. Instead, it’s meant to elicit a smile or maybe even a laugh. From time to time, it’s good to lighten up even about something as serious as the immigrants who have chosen America as their new country. Perhaps, if we can find humor in their attempts to use American expressions (idioms), we can become more light-hearted about the challenges they face in the process of adapting to a new language and customs in...

A captivating and page-turning romance perfect for fans of Christina Courtenay and Barbara Erskine!On a windswept British coastline the tide bestows an unexpected gift…It was the cry that she first noticed, the plaintive wail that called to her over the crash of winter waves. Wrapped only in a sealskin, the baby girl looks up at Effie and instantly captures her heart.Effie has always been an outcast in her village, the only granddaughter of...

A beautifully imagined tale of the Brontë sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent youn...

In the City of Love, she has nothing left to lose except her heart...Penniless and stranded abroad, Lady Adele Kingsford's survival depends on her brother's ability to charm the ladies. After Adele meets the man of her dreams and he makes an offer of marriage, she's certain her struggles have come to an end. But when one of her brother's assignations turns dangerous, the siblings must flee for their lives, separating Adele from the man who makes her feel cherished ...

'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dickens's Great Expectations.' Karen Brooks, author. The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks.At just three years of age, Estella is taken from her mother, adopted by the wealthy but eccentric Miss Havisham and taught how to break men's hearts. Satis House...

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman.From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is ...

Retold for Learners of English by Clare WestIn a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a deaths head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip.Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the gir...