Book Review Examples

Imagery and Symbolism in “The Awakening”, Book Review Example

In Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening,” the author describes the emotional changes and development of the main character, Edna, as she begins to feel overly constricted by the rules and regulations [...]

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Words: 371

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Jon Gordon’s the Shark and the Goldfish, Book Review Example

Gordon’s 2009 text, The Shark and the Goldfish, is another in the author’s series of “positive” instructional works, the latter all clearly falling within the genre of self-help literature. Hence, [...]

Pages: 1

Words: 376

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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Women in Literature, Book Review Example

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, as does much of Austen’s work, takes an approach to family that is both austere and approving. On one level, she often exposes the political ambitions [...]

Pages: 3

Words: 700

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Japan in the Wake of World War II, Book Review Example

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II Introduction Any country that faces bitter defeat, as a result of a war or other major conflict, has the awful [...]

Pages: 5

Words: 1391

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The Great Gatsby, Book Review Example

The theme on the surface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is that it’s a book about the relationship between a man and a woman in the 1920’s, but [...]

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Words: 363

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Phillip Aries’ “Western Attitudes Towards Death”, Book Review Example

The French historian Phillip Aries’ text Western Attitudes Towards Death is appealing precisely in its attempt to clearly delineate how death is received historically by the human being. Part of [...]

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Words: 282

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