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Camus' landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. This title presents readers with a kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens.

The Canterbury Tales was the first great poem in the English language. Ideal for research, this title in the ""Bloom's Guides"" series includes excerpts from interpretive essays that provide expert commentary on this work.

Composed around 1000 CE, this title is among the longest-known poems written in Old English. It tells of the heroic deeds of the great warrior Beowulf, and contains both Christian and pagan symbolism.

Written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847, ""Jane Eyre"" is the story of a governess who, despite her plainness, catches the eye of her employer, the mysterious Edward Rochester. This ""Bloom's Guides"" reference offers insights into the themes and motifs that dominate this brooding masterpiece.

The Joy Luck Club explores the lives of the women in four Chinese-American families and the daughters who struggle to fulfill or reject the cultural and familial expectations placed on them. This guide to ""The Joy Luck Club"" includes helpful critical excerpts for those studying the book, an annotated bibliography, and an index for reference.

Zora Neale Hurston's novel, ""Their Eyes Were Watching God"", depicts a woman's struggle for personal awareness and self-empowerment and has inspired many of the African-American women writers who have followed in Hurston's footsteps. This study guide to the novel features short excerpts of critical essays, an annotated bibliography, and an index.

Gathers excerpts of numerous critical essays on the novel. This title discusses topics such as: the symbolic use of the sea, literary naturalism, and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in regard to the novel. It includes an annotated bibliography, and a listing of other works by the author.

Emily Bronte's ""Wuthering Heights"", set among the rugged beauty of the English moors, is the tragic and passionate story of Catherine and Heathcliff, two lovers drawn together from the moment they meet. This volume offers an analysis for students seeking insight into this tale praised for its innovative structure, originality, and poetic style.

Perhaps the most written-about long poem of the 20th century, TS Eliot's ""The Waste Land"" is a cornerstone of the modernist movement and deals with what was then viewed as the decline of civilization. This title offers students a resource meant to deepen their appreciation of this work by investigating its innovative use of language and imagery.

A summer internship at a fashion magazine in New York City reveals only the lack of beauty in the young woman's inner life, as Esther Greenwood succumbs to a pervasive depression that she likens to being trapped beneath the title object, a bell jar, struggling for her next breath.

Written by Sophocles around 425 BCE, ""Oedipus Rex"" is a classic Greek tragedy that depicts the struggle between man and fate. Oedipus' story forms the foundation for the symbolic conflict between sons and fathers. Part of the ""Bloom's Guides"", this title offers its readers fresh insight into this time-honored classic.