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Study guides for the classics

Ten classics, each with themes, characters, words worth knowing and questions to discuss.

Lewis Carroll · 1865

Bored on a riverbank, Alice follows a waistcoated White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds herself in a world where siz…

Jane Austen · 1813

The five Bennet sisters need to marry well, because their father’s estate is entailed away from them. Elizabeth Bennet’s…

Jane Austen · 1811

After their father’s death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother are left with little money. Elinor hides her f…

L. Frank Baum · 1900

A cyclone carries Dorothy and her dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz. To get home she follows the yellow brick road …

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901–1902

Sir Henry Baskerville inherits an estate on Dartmoor, where the family has long been haunted by the legend of a spectral…

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

In seventeenth-century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is made to wear a scarlet “A” for adultery and refuses to name the …

Louisa May Alcott · 1868–1869

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March grow up in New England while their father is away during the American Civil War. Their mothe…

L. M. Montgomery · 1908

Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a brother and sister on Prince Edward Island, ask for a boy to help on their farm, but an …

Oscar Wilde · 1895

Two young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, each invent a fictional identity to escape social obligations. When…

Oscar Wilde · 1888

A collection of fairy tales that includes “The Happy Prince”, in which a golden statue and a little swallow give away th…