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Intro -- Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night -- Summary -- Act 1: "8:30A.M. on a day in August, 1912" -- Act 2: "The same, around 12:45" and "about a half hour later" -- Act 3: "The same, around 6:30 that evening" -- Act 4: "The same, around midnight" -- Character study -- James Tyrone -- Mary Cavan Tyrone -- James Tyrone, Jr. -- Edmund Tyrone -- Cathleen -- Analysis -- A modern tragedy -- Home -- Fog, addiction, and blindness -- Social class and Irish-ness -- God and 'the gods' -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Virginia Woolf -- The Years -- Summary -- 1880: A mother's death -- 1891: Individual lives -- 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913: Passing time -- 1914: Time stops -- 1917, 1918: The War -- Present Day: Finding patterns -- Character study -- Colonel Abel Pargiter -- Rose Pargiter (née Rigby) -- Eleanor Pargiter -- Morris Pargiter -- Edward Pargiter -- Milly Pargiter -- Delia Pargiter -- Martin Pargiter -- Rose Pargiter -- Crosby -- Kitty Malone -- Sir Digby Pargiter -- Eugénie Pargiter -- Magdalena (Maggie) Pargiter -- Sara (Sally) Pargiter -- North Pargiter -- Peggy Pargiter -- René (Renny) -- Nicholas Pomjalovsky -- Others -- Analysis -- The experience of women -- Leitmotifs (1): symbols -- Leitmotifs (2): words -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Margaret Atwood -- The Blind Assassin -- Summary -- Stories within stories -- Avilion -- The picnic -- A convenient arrangement -- Revelations -- Character study -- Iris Chase -- Laura Chase -- Alex Thomas -- Reenie -- Richard Griffen -- Analysis -- The search for truth -- The power of the written word -- Legacy -- Blindness -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Anthony Burgess -- A Clockwork Orange -- Summary -- Part 1: Alex and his droogs -- Part 2: Prison and the Ludovico Technique -- Part 3: Reformed -- Chapter 21 -- Character study -- Alex -- Dim -- Pete -- P. R. Deltoid -- Prison Chaplain -- F. Alexander -- Dr. Brodsky -- Analysis -- A bleak future -- Somewhere in the future… -- Born bad? -- My droogs -- An iron curtain has fallen... -- The end -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Agatha Christie -- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- Summary -- Welcome to King's Abbot -- Poirot joins the investigation -- The confessions begin -- All is revealed -- Character study -- Dr James Sheppard -- Hercule Poirot -- Roger Ackroyd -- Caroline Sheppard -- Flora Ackroyd -- Mrs Ackroyd -- Ralph Paton -- Ursula Bourne -- Geoffrey Raymond -- Major Hector Blunt -- Parker -- Miss Russell -- Analysis -- The detective novel -- Watson the murderer -- Unavoidable evil -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Arundhati Roy -- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness -- Summary -- Anjum -- Anjum's guesthouse -- Garson Hobart -- Tilo -- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness -- Character study -- Anjum -- Tilo -- Biplab Dasgupta -- Naga -- Musa -- Saddam Hussain -- Zainab -- Major Amrik Singh -- Miss Jebeen the Second -- Analysis -- A postcolonial novel -- Contemporary Indian society -- Kashmir -- Poverty -- Gender -- Style -- Further reflection -- Further reading.

Intro -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Genevan writer, philosopher and composer -- The Social Contract -- Society and politics according to an Enlightenment philosopher -- Summary -- Context -- The Enlightenment -- The political reflections of the Enlightenment -- The political reflections of Rousseau -- Analysis -- Rousseau's project -- A logical construction -- The central themes -- The constant concern for the real -- Further reflection -- Some questions to think about… -- Further reading.

Intro -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- Italian politician and writer -- The Prince -- A political treatise -- Summary -- Context -- Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries -- Analysis -- The literary procedure of the exemplum -- The "mirror for princes" genre -- Machiavelli and Machiavellianism -- A humanist work -- Further reflection -- Some questions to think about… -- Further reading.

Thomas More -- English lawyer, Privy Councillor, humanist and theologian -- Utopia -- Journey to the land of nowhere -- Summary -- Character study -- Peter Giles -- Raphael Hythloday -- Thomas More -- Analysis -- Historical context -- Genre: Utopia, an imaginary world -- Thomas More, a humanist -- Utopia: a treatise on political philosophy for governors -- Further reflection -- Some questions to think about… -- Further reading

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Intro -- Albert Camus -- French writer and philosopher -- The Myth of Sisyphus -- An essay on the absurd -- Summary -- Context -- The influence of contemporary philosophers -- Analysis -- Writing a philosophical essay -- Existentialism -- The absurd man -- The cycle of the absurd -- Revolt -- Further reflection -- Some questions to think about… -- Further reading.