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05 Aug 09

Reviews of Books - Book Reviews

(M M)Welcome to your one stop for professional reviews of books. What we've attempted to accomplish here is to collect book reviews from major online media sites that are available without having to register at a site or pay to read them. We're not interested in just a short blurb or small section of someone else's review. We try to find full-length reviews of books that help the reader gather the information they seek to determine if the book is worth their time. We prefer reviews that deal with each book at length, but sometimes settle for smaller reviews when lengthier ones are unavailable. For each book listed here, we try to find at least three reviews on different web sites. This way you can read as many of them as you'd like before deciding on a book. We also write our own book reviews. An Editor's Pick logo is also applied to any book we've read and enjoyed. The lack of this logo for any book usually just means we haven't read the book.

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SparkNotes: Death of a Salesman: Analysis of Major Characters

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Analysis of Major Characters

Willy Loman

Despite his desperate searching through his past, Willy does not achieve the self-realization or self-knowledge typical of the tragic hero. The quasi-resolution that his suicide offers him represents only a partial discovery of the truth. While he achieves a professional understanding of himself and the fundamental nature of the sales profession, Willy fails to realize his personal failure and betrayal of his soul and family through the meticulously constructed artifice of his life. He cannot grasp the true personal, emotional, spiritual understanding of himself as a literal “loman” or “low man.” Willy is too driven by his own “willy”-ness or perverse “willfulness” to recognize the slanted reality that his desperate mind has forged. Still, many critics, focusing on Willy's entrenchment in a quagmire of lies, delusions, and self-deceptions, ignore the significant accomplishment of his partial self-realization. Willy's failure to recognize the anguished love offered to him by his family is crucial to the climax of his torturous day, and the play presents this incapacity as the real tragedy. Despite this failure, Willy makes the most extreme sacrifice in his attempt to leave an inheritance that will allow Biff to fulfill the American Dream.

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16 Sep 08

The Handmaid

The Handmaid’s Tale
A WebQuest on the background of the novel (LK E 13)

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  • webquest and material "A handmaids Tale" (J.L.) - bigfellow on 2006-09-23

1984

  • Was Orwell right? A page from a US teacher for his students, with links to bring them to consider the issues in regard with the Patriot Act and the present US government
     - bigfellow on 2007-01-22

1984 by George Orwell

  • Mr. Geib's webpage for George Orwell's terrifying brilliant novel of dystopia, "1984." :
    a very interesting site, very visual, with a link to a newspeak dictionary, a guide on how to be a good dictator, and a link to big brother reality tv shows, plus lots of references and food for thought.
     - bigfellow on 2007-01-22

1984 Summary & Essays - George Orwell

  • e notes on 1984 everything about the book, plus lesson plans
     - bigfellow on 2007-01-22

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley: In-class Essay

  • BNW infos on background and context, a diagram, and an essay with two pictures to start a discussion
    - bigfellow on 2007-01-22
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