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Study Guides by Author: L

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  • Lacan, Jacques
    • Lacan: The Essential Writings
  • Lackey, Mercedes
    • Magic's Pawn
    • Magic's Price
    • Magic's Promise
  • Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
    • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Laforet, Carmen
    • Nada
  • Lagerlöf, Selma
    • Jerusalem: A Novel
    • The Rattrap
    • The Saga of Gosta Berling
    • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • Lahiri, Jhumpa
    • Interpreter of Maladies
    • The Lowland
    • The Namesake
    • Unaccustomed Earth
  • Laila Lalami
    • Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
  • Lai, Thanhha
    • Inside Out and Back Again
    • Listen, Slowlly
  • Lake, Nick
    • In Darkness
  • Lama, Tsering Yangzom
    • We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
  • L'Amour, Louis
    • Hondo
  • Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di
    • The Leopard
  • Lanagan, Margo
    • The Brides of Rollrock Island
  • Landis, John
    • Animal House
  • Land, Stephanie
    • Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
  • Lanford Wilson
    • Lemon Sky
  • Langewiesche, William
    • The Outlaw Sea
  • Lang, Fritz
    • Die Nibelungen (Film)
    • M (1931 Film)
    • Metropolis
  • Langland, William
    • Piers Plowman
  • Lansdale, Joe R.
    • Edge of Dark Water
  • Lansing, Alfred
    • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
  • Lanyer, Aemilia
    • The Description of Cooke-ham
    • The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer
    • Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
  • Lao Tzu
    • Tao Te Ching
  • Lapena, Shari
    • The Couple Next Door
  • LaPointe, Sasha
    • Red Paint
  • Larkin, Philip
    • An Arundel Tomb
    • Aubade
    • Coming (Philip Larkin poem)
    • Philip Larkin: Poems
    • Sunny Prestatyn
    • Talking in Bed
    • The Whitsun Weddings
  • Larsen, Nella
    • Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
    • Passing
    • Quicksand
  • Larson, Erik
    • Dead Wake
    • The Devil in the White City
    • The Splendid and the Vile
  • Larsson, Stieg
    • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
    • The Girl Who Played With Fire
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Latham, Jean Lee
    • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
  • Latham, Jennifer
    • Dreamland Burning
  • Latour, Bruno
    • Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
    • We Have Never Been Modern
  • Laurence, Margaret
    • The Diviners
    • A Jest of God
    • Margaret Laurence: Short Stories
    • The Stone Angel
  • Laurie, Greg
    • Jesus Revolution
  • LaValle, Victor
    • The Changeling
    • Slapboxing with Jesus
  • Lawler, Ray
    • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
  • Lawrence, D.H.
    • Daughters of the Vicar
    • The Horse-Dealer's Daughter
    • Lady Chatterley's Lover
    • Odour of Chrysanthemums
    • The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence
    • The Prussian Officer
    • The Rainbow
    • The Rocking-Horse Winner
    • Second Best
    • Self-Pity
    • Short Fiction of D.H. Lawrence
    • Sons and Lovers
    • Women in Love
  • Lawrence, Francis
    • I Am Legend
  • Lawrence, Jerome
    • Inherit the Wind
    • The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
  • Lawrence, Ray
    • Lantana
  • Lawson, Henry
    • Andy's Gone With Cattle
    • A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father
    • The Drover's Wife
    • Freedom on the Wallaby
    • Henry Lawson: Short Stories
    • The Loaded Dog
    • On the Edge of a Plain
    • The Union Buries Its Dead
  • Laye, Camara
    • The Dark Child (The African Child)
  • Laymon, Kiese
    • Heavy: An American Memoir
  • Layton, Bart
    • American Animals
  • Lazar, Andrew
    • Ten Things I Hate About You
  • Lazarus, Emma
    • "The New Colossus" and Other Poems
  • Leacock, Stephen
    • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
    • "The Woman Question" and Other Short Writings
  • Lean, David
    • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Lear, Edward
    • The Dong with a Luminous Noise
    • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
  • Lears, Rachel
    • Knock Down the House
  • le Carre, John
    • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Leckie, Ann
    • Ancillary Justice
  • Lederer, William J.
    • The Ugly American
  • Leder, Mimi
    • On the Basis of Sex
  • Lee, Ang
    • Brokeback Mountain (Film)
    • Eat Drink Man Woman
  • Lee, Chang-Rae
    • A Gesture Life
    • Native Speaker
  • Lee, Harper
    • Go Set a Watchman
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Lee, Jen Sookfong
    • The Conjoined: A Novel
  • Lee, Li-Young
    • The Poetry of Li-Young Lee
  • Lee, Min Jin
    • Pachinko
  • Lee, Robert
    • Inherit the Wind
    • The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
  • Lee, Spike
    • Bamboozled
  • Lee, Tanith
    • "When the Clock Strikes" and Other Works of Fiction
  • Le Fanu, Joseph
    • Carmilla
  • Lefteri, Christy
    • The Beekeeper of Aleppo
  • Le Guin, Ursula
    • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
    • The Lathe of Heaven
    • The Left Hand of Darkness
    • Ursula Le Guin: Short Stories
    • A Wizard of Earthsea
    • The Word for World Is Forest
  • Lehane, Dennis
    • Shutter Island
  • Leiber, Fritz
    • Swords Against Death
    • Swords and Deviltry
    • Swords in the Mist
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
    • Philosophical Essays and Texts of Leibniz
  • Leigh, Melinda
    • Cross Her Heart
  • Lema, Elieshi
    • Parched Earth: A Love Story
  • Lem, Stanislaw
    • The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age
    • The Invincible
    • Solaris
  • Le, Nam
    • The Boat
  • L'Engle, Madeleine
    • A Wind in the Door
    • Swiftly Tilting Planet
    • A Wrinkle in Time
  • Lenin, Vladimir
    • The State and Revolution
  • Leone, Sergio
    • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Leonnig, Carol
    • A Very Stable Genius
  • Leopold, Aldo
    • A Sand County Almanac
  • Lepore, Jill
    • The Story of America: Essays on Origins
  • Le Queux, William
    • The Czar's Spy
  • Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich
    • A Hero of Our Time
  • Lerner, Ben
    • 10:04
  • Leroux, Gaston
    • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Lessing, Doris
    • Doris Lessing: Stories
    • The Fifth Child
    • The Golden Notebook
    • The Good Terrorist
    • The Grass is Singing
    • Through the Tunnel
  • Lethem, Jonathan
    • The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
  • Le Thi Diem Thuy
    • The Gangster We Are All Looking For
  • Letts, Billie
    • Where the Heart Is
  • Letts, Tracy
    • August: Osage County
  • Levertov, Denise
    • Denise Levertov: Poems
    • What Were They Like?
  • Levine, Gail Carson
    • Ella Enchanted
  • Levine, Philip
    • Philip Levine: Poetry
  • Levin, Ira
    • The Stepford Wives
  • Levinson, Barry
    • Wag the Dog
  • Levi, Primo
    • The Drowned and the Saved
    • The Mirror Maker: Stories and Essays
    • Survival in Auschwitz
  • Levithan, David
    • 19 Love Songs
    • Another Day
    • Every Day
    • Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    • Someday
    • Two Boys Kissing
    • Will Grayson, Will Grayson
  • Levitt, Steven D.
    • Freakonomics
  • Levy, Andrea
    • Small Island
  • Levy, Debbie
    • Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice
    • I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
  • Lewin, Everest
    • Everest Lewin: Poems
  • Lewis, C. S.
    • The Abolition of Man
    • The Four Loves
    • The Great Divorce
    • The Horse and His Boy
    • The Last Battle
    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    • The Magician's Nephew
    • Mere Christianity
    • Out of the Silent Planet
    • Perelandra
    • Prince Caspian
    • The Problem of Pain
    • The Screwtape Letters
    • The Silver Chair
    • That Hideous Strength
    • Till We Have Faces
    • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  • Lewis, Janet
    • The Wife of Martin Guerre
  • Lewis, John
    • March
  • Lewis, Matthew
    • The Monk
  • Lewis, Michael
    • The Big Short
    • The Blind Side
    • Moneyball
    • The Undoing Project
  • Lewis, Sinclair
    • Arrowsmith
    • Babbitt
    • Main Street
  • Liang Heng
    • Son of the Revolution
  • Lightman, Alan
    • Einstein's Dreams
  • of Lille, Alan
    • Anticlaudianus
  • Lillian Lee
    • Farewell My Concubine
  • Lillo, George
    • The London Merchant
  • Limón, Ada
    • Dead Stars
    • The End of Poetry
    • How to Triumph Like a Girl
    • Instructions on Not Giving Up
    • The Leash
    • The Poetry of Ada Limón
    • Wife (Ada Limón poem)
  • Lim, Suchen Christine
    • The Man Who Wore His Wife's Sarong
  • Lindgren, Astrid
    • Pippi Longstocking
  • Lindsay, Joan
    • Picnic at Hanging Rock
  • Lin, Grace
    • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
  • Lippard, George
    • The Quaker City
  • Lively, Penelop
    • Moon Tiger
  • Livingston, Jennie
    • Paris Is Burning
  • Livy
    • The Rise of Rome
  • Li, Winnie M.
    • Dark Chapter
  • Liz Lochhead
    • Liz Lochhead: Poems
  • Lloyd, David
    • V For Vendetta
  • Loach, Ken
    • Land and Freedom
  • Locke, Alain
    • The New Negro
  • Locke, John
    • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
    • The Political Writings of John Locke
    • Second Treatise of Government
    • Some Thoughts Concerning Education
  • Lockhart, E.
    • Real Live Boyfriends
    • We Were Liars
  • Lodge, David
    • Nice Work
  • Loewen, James W.
    • Lies My Teacher Told Me
  • Lo, Malinda
    • Last Night at the Telegraph Club
  • London, Jack
    • Call of the Wild
    • The Iron Heel
    • The Sea-Wolf
    • To Build a Fire
    • White Fang
  • London, Joan
    • The Golden Age
  • Longfellow, Henry
    • The Children's Hour
    • Christmas Bells
    • The Day Is Done
    • Evangeline; A Tale of Acadie
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems
    • Paul Revere's Ride
    • A Psalm of Life
  • Longus, Paul
    • Daphnis and Chloe
  • Lopez, Josefina
    • Detained in the Desert
  • Lorca, Federico
    • Blood Wedding
    • The House of Bernarda Alba
    • The Public
  • Lord, Bette Bao
    • Spring Moon
  • Lord, Cynthia
    • Rules
  • Lorde, Audre
    • Audre Lorde: Poetry
    • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
  • de Lorris, Guillaume
    • The Romance of the Rose
  • Louise Gluck
    • Faithful and Virtuous Night
    • Gretel in Darkness
    • Louise Gluck: Poems
    • Wild Iris
  • Louise Labé
    • Louise Labé: Poems
  • Louis MacNeice
    • Louis MacNeice: Poems
  • Louv, Richard
    • Last Child in the Woods
  • Lovecraft, H.P.
    • The Call of Cthulhu
    • Selected Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
  • Lovelace, Richard
    • The Grasshopper
    • The Scrutiny
    • "The Scrutiny" and Other Poems
    • To Althea, From Prison
  • Lowell, Amy
    • Amy Lowell: Poems
  • Lowell, James Russell
    • James Russell Lowell: Poetry
  • Lowell, Robert
    • For the Union Dead
    • The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
    • Robert Lowell Collected Poems
    • Skunk Hour
  • Lowry, Lois
    • Gathering Blue
    • The Giver
    • Messenger
    • Number the Stars
  • Loy, Mina
    • "Feminist Manifesto" and Other Texts
    • The Last Lunar Baedeker
  • Lubitsch, Ernst
    • Trouble in Paradise
  • Lucas, George
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • Star Wars
  • Luce Irigaray
    • Women on the Market
  • Luhrmann, Baz
    • The Great Gatsby (2013 Film)
    • Romeo and Juliet (Film 1996)
  • Luis Buñuel
    • Un Chien Andalou
    • The Young and the Damned
  • Luiselli, Valeria
    • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
  • Lukoff, Kyle
    • Too Bright to See
  • Lu, Marie
    • Champion
    • Legend
    • Prodigy
    • The Young Elites
  • Lumet, Sidney
    • 12 Angry Men (1957 film)
    • Network
  • Luo Guanzhong
    • Romance of the Three Kingdoms
  • Lupika, Mike
    • Travel Team
  • Luqman-Dawson, Amina
    • Freewater
  • Luttrell, Marcus
    • Lone Survivor
  • Lydgate, John
    • John Lydgate: Poems
  • Lyne, Adrian
    • Fatal Attraction
  • Lyotard, Jean-Francois
    • The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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