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Subscribe for $3 a Month. Summary. In A Vision, Yeats attempts to provide a metaphysical framework for understanding the human experience, history, and the cosmos. The work is deeply influenced by a series of automatic writings dictated to Yeats by his wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, following their marriage in 1917. Yeats and Hyde-Lees believed these ...
Unable to answer rationally why he was so sad, Augustine concludes nonetheless that weeping before God is acceptable because God is infinitely compassionate. He closes the Book (and the story of his life) with a prayer for Monica's soul. A summary of Book 9 in Augustine's Confessions. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or ...
Summary: Book 8. Now that Socrates has finished describing the just city, he returns to the interrupted task of describing the four unjust constitutions of city and man. In addition to the aristocracy that we have been discussing for the past six books, and the philosopher-king who microcosmically embodies and rules this government, Socrates ...
The Help Full Book Summary. In the summer of 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, Aibileen Clark, a Black woman in her fifties, has been working for the white Leefolt family for two years as a maid and caretaker of their daughter, Mae Mobley. While working one day, Aibileen overhears a conversation between Elizabeth Leefolt and her friends, Skeeter ...
Full Work Summary. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues for American independence. His argument begins with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation. Paine begins by distinguishing between government and society. Society, according to Paine, is everything ...
When Saeed’s mother gets killed by stray gunfire, Nadia relents and moves in with Saeed and his father. As the fighting worsens, Saeed and Nadia hear rumors about magical doors that can transport people anywhere in the world. They don’t believe these rumors. The militants eventually take the city, imposing strict rules and surveillance.
The Alchemist Full Book Summary. A recurring dream troubles Santiago, a young and adventurous Andalusian shepherd. He has the dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago consults a gypsy woman to ...
