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Work Guides

Per-work guides are the foundation of Literature Essay Samples: a long-form analysis of each work, focused essays on character, motif, and structure, context, and discussion questions. Browse what is live now; new guides publish every week.

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We publish in priority order, starting with the works most often assigned. These are on the way:

• The Color Purple
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Hamlet
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Indian Horse
• An Inspector Calls
• Jasper Jones
• Langston Hughes Poems
• Lolita
• Maus
• The Metamorphosis
• A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
• My Children My Africa
• The Necklace
• Past the Shallows
• Persepolis the Story of a Childhood
• Private Peaceful
• Pygmalion
• Rear Window
• Robert Frost Poems
• Thirteen Reasons Why
• Thomas Hardy Poems
• War and Peace
• Where Are You Going Where Have You Been

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