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Work Guides

Per-work guides are the foundation of Literature Essay Samples. Each guide collects a long-form opening analysis, focused satellite essays on character, motif, and structure, historical context, and discussion questions, written the way a good English teacher would, with the text in front of them. Browse every work below; we publish in priority order, starting with the titles most often assigned in school.

All works

• American Beauty
• American Born Chinese
• Animal Farm
• Antigone
• The Book Thief
• The Color Purple
• The Crucible
• Death of a Salesman
• A Dolls House
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• The Great Gatsby
• Hamlet
• Hills Like White Elephants
• House on Mango Street
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Indian Horse
• An Inspector Calls
• Into the Wild
• Jasper Jones
• Kate Chopins Short Stories
• The Kite Runner
• Langston Hughes Poems
• Letter From Birmingham Jail
• Life of Pi
• Lolita
• Lord of the Flies
• Macbeth
• Maus
• The Metamorphosis
• A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
• The Most Dangerous Game
• My Children My Africa
• The Necklace
• Night
• The Odyssey
• Of Mice and Men
• Othello
• The Other Wes Moore
• The Outsiders
• Past the Shallows
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Persepolis the Story of a Childhood
• Private Peaceful
• Pygmalion
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Rear Window
• Robert Frost Poems
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Slaughterhouse Five
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Things They Carried
• Thirteen Reasons Why
• Thomas Hardy Poems
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Trifles
• A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
• War and Peace
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been
• The Yellow Wallpaper

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