Study guides
Book guides
One guide per book, written the slow way: themes, characters and quotations analysed against the actual text, which you can read free — with an AI companion in the margins — one click from every page.
We add guides in order of how many students need them, starting with the most-set exam texts. If your text isn't here yet, it's probably in the library to read in full, and the curriculum guides cover every syllabus.
Macbeth — William Shakespeare
Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy: a celebrated Scottish general hears a prophecy that he will be king, murders his way to the throne with his wife's help, and is destroyed — first psychologically, then literally — by what he has done.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (1847) is Charlotte Brontë's novel about a poor, plain, fiercely principled orphan who survives a loveless childhood and a brutal charity school, falls in love with her employer Mr Rochester, discovers on her wedding day that he is already married — to a woman confined in his attic — and walks away from everything she wants rather than surrender her self-respect, returning only when she can do so as his equal.
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein (1818) is Mary Shelley's novel about a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who builds a living being from dead matter, abandons it in horror at the moment it opens its eyes, and spends the rest of the book paying for that abandonment as the rejected, self-educated Creature destroys everyone Victor loves and demands to know why he was made.