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Study Guides by Author: W

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  • Wachowskis, The
    • Cloud Atlas (2012 Film)
    • The Matrix
  • Wagamese, Richard
    • Indian Horse
    • Medicine Walk
    • Ragged Company
  • Waititi, Taika
    • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    • Jojo Rabbit
  • Walbert, Kate
    • A Short History of Women
    • The Sunken Cathedral
  • Walcott, Derek
    • Derek Walcott: Collected Poems
    • Midsummer
    • Pantomime
    • Ti-Jean and His Brothers
  • Walker, Alice
    • Alice Walker: Poetry
    • The Color Purple
    • Everyday Use
    • The Flowers
    • In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
    • In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
    • Meridian
    • The Temple of My Familiar
  • Walker, Margaret
    • Margaret Walker: Poems
  • Wallace, Bronwen
    • The Poems of Bronwen Wallace
  • Wallace, Daniel
    • Big Fish
  • Wallace, David Foster
    • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    • Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
    • Infinite Jest
  • Wallace-Wells, David
    • The Uninhabitable Earth
  • Wallis, Jim
    • Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street
  • Walls, Jeannette
    • The Glass Castle
    • Half Broke Horses
  • Walpole, Horace
    • The Castle of Otranto
  • Walter de la Mare
    • The Listeners
  • Walter Miller
    • A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Warchus, Matthew
    • Pride (2014 film)
  • Ward, Jesmyn
    • Let Us Descend
    • Men We Reaped
    • Salvage the Bones
    • Sing, Unburied, Sing
  • Ware, Chris
    • Building Stories
  • Ware, Ruth
    • The Woman in Cabin 10
    • Zero Days
  • Warner, Michael
    • The Trouble With Normal
  • Warren, Elizabeth
    • A Fighting Chance
    • This Fight Is Our Fight
  • Warren, Robert
    • All the King's Men
    • The Poetry of Robert Penn Warren
    • "The Circus in the Attic" and Other Short Stories
  • Washington, Booker T.
    • Up From Slavery
  • Washington, Bryan
    • Family Meal
  • Waterhouse, Andrew
    • Climbing My Grandfather
  • Waters, Mark
    • Mean Girls
  • Waters, Sarah
    • Fingersmith
    • The Little Stranger
  • Watson, Christine
    • Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
  • Watson, Jessica
    • True Spirit
  • Watson, Larry
    • Montana 1948
  • Watson, Renée
    • The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
  • Waugh, Evelyn
    • Brideshead Revisited
    • Decline and Fall
    • A Handful of Dust
    • The Loved One
    • Vile Bodies
  • W.D. Snodgrass
    • W.D. Snodgrass: Poems
  • Weatherford, Jack
    • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  • Webb, Amy
    • When Charley Met Emma
  • Weber, Max
    • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    • Weber: Political Writings
  • Webster, Augusta
    • A Housewife's Opinions
  • Webster, John
    • The Duchess of Malfi
    • The White Devil
  • Wedekind, Frank
    • Spring Awakening
  • Weiden, David Heska Wanbli
    • Winter Counts
  • Weiner, Jonathan
    • The Beak of the Finch
  • Weinstein, Alexander
    • Saying Goodbye to Yang
  • Weir, Andy
    • Artemis
    • The Martian
    • Project Hail Mary
  • Weir, Jane
    • Poppies (Jane Weir poem)
  • Weir, Peter
    • Dead Poets Society
    • The Truman Show
  • Welch, James
    • Fools Crow
    • Winter in the Blood
  • Welch, Jenna Evans
    • Love and Gelato
  • Weldon, Fay
    • Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
  • Weller, Archie
    • Going Home: Stories
  • Welles, Orson
    • Citizen Kane
    • F For Fake
    • The Lady From Shanghai
    • Othello (1951 Film)
  • Wells, H.G.
    • Ann Veronica
    • The Invisible Man
    • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    • "The Stolen Bacillus" and Other Stories
    • The Time Machine
    • Tono-Bungay
    • The War of the Worlds
  • Welsh, Irvine
    • Trainspotting
  • Welty, Eudora
    • Eudora Welty: Short Stories
    • The Optimist's Daughter
    • Petrified Man
    • The Ponder Heart
    • The Robber Bridegroom
    • Why I Live at the P.O.
    • A Worn Path
  • Wenders, Wim
    • Alice in the Cities
    • Wings of Desire
  • West, Betsy
    • RBG
  • Westerfeld, Scott
    • Pretties (The Uglies)
    • Specials (The Uglies)
    • Uglies (The Uglies)
  • West, Nathanael
    • Miss Lonelyhearts
  • Westover, Tara
    • Educated
  • West, Rebecca
    • The Return of the Soldier
  • Whales, James
    • Frankenstein (Film)
  • Whaley, John Corey
    • Where Things Come Back
  • Wharton, Edith
    • The Age of Innocence
    • The Custom of the Country
    • Ethan Frome
    • The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
    • House of Mirth
    • The Old Maid
    • Roman Fever and Other Stories
    • Summer
  • Wheatley, Phillis
    • Phillis Wheatley: Poems
  • White, E.B.
    • Charlotte's Web
    • Stuart Little
    • The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Whitehead, Colson
    • Harlem Shuffle
    • The Nickel Boys
    • Sag Harbor
    • The Underground Railroad
    • Zone One
  • White, Patrick
    • The Vivisector
  • White, T.H.
    • The Once and Future King
    • The Sword in the Stone
  • Whitman, Walt
    • Democratic Vistas
    • Leaves of Grass
    • Walt Whitman: Poems
  • Whitney, Isabella
    • The Poetry of Isabella Whitney
  • Wicomb, Zoe
    • October
  • Wiedeman, Reeves
    • Billion Dollar Loser
  • Wiene, Robert
    • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Wiesel, Elie
    • Night
  • Wiesenthal, Simon
    • The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
  • Wiess, Laura
    • Such a Pretty Girl
  • Wiggins, Bethany
    • Cured
    • Stung
  • Wigglesworth, Michael
    • Wigglesworth's Poems
  • Wilbur, Richard
    • Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
    • Richard Wilbur: Poems
  • Wilde, Oscar
    • The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    • The Canterville Ghost
    • De Profundis
    • The Happy Prince and Other Tales
    • Hélas!
    • An Ideal Husband
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Lady Windermere's Fan
    • Oscar Wilde: Essays
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    • The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
    • Requiescat
    • Salome
    • "The Sphinx Without a Secret" and Other Stories
    • A Woman of No Importance
  • Wilder, Billy
    • The Apartment
    • Double Indemnity
    • Some Like it Hot
    • Sunset Boulevard
  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls
    • Little Town on the Prairie
  • Wilder, Thornton
    • The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    • Our Town
  • Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Black Cake
  • Wilkerson, Isabel
    • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    • The Warmth of Other Suns
  • William Beckford
    • Vathek
  • William Bradford
    • Of Plymouth Plantation
  • William Cowper
    • The Task
    • William Cowper: Sermons and Poems
  • William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
    • The Difference Engine
  • William Meredith
    • The Illiterate
  • Williams, John A.
    • Clifford's Blues
  • Williams, Tennessee
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    • The Glass Menagerie
    • The Night of the Iguana
    • A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Suddenly Last Summer
    • Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Williams, Terry Tempest
    • When Women Were Birds
  • Williams, William Carlos
    • Between Walls
    • Danse Russe
    • Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
    • The Red Wheelbarrow
    • "The Use of Force" and Other Stories
    • This Is Just To Say
    • The Widow's Lament in Springtime
    • William Carlos Williams: Poems
  • Willis, Connie
    • To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, John
    • The Poems of Lord Rochester
  • Wilson, August
    • Fences
    • Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
    • King Hedley II
    • The Piano Lesson
  • Wilson, Daniel H.
    • Robopocalypse
  • Wilson, Harriet
    • Our Nig: Or, Sketches From the Life of a Free Black
  • Wilson,, Kai Ashante
    • The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
  • Wimmer, Kurt
    • Equilibrium
  • Winant, Howard
    • Racial Formation in the United States
  • Winch, Tara June
    • Swallow the Air
  • Wingate, Lisa
    • Before We Were Yours
  • Winkfield, Unca Eliza
    • The Female American
  • Winter, Jonah
    • Jonah Winter: Selected Poems
  • Winter, Kathleen
    • Annabel
  • Winters, Ben H.
    • Underground Airlines
  • Winterson, Jeanette
    • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    • The Passion
    • Sexing the Cherry
    • The Stone Gods
    • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    • Written on the Body
  • Winton, Tim
    • The Boy Behind the Curtain
    • Cloudstreet
    • The Turning
  • Wiseau, Tommy
    • The Room (2003 Film)
  • Wiseman, Christopher
    • Christopher Wiseman: Poetry
  • Wise, Robert
    • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 Film)
    • The Sound of Music
    • West Side Story (1961 film)
  • Witting, Amy
    • I for Isobel
  • Wodehouse, P.G.
    • Best Seller
  • Wolfe, Thomas
    • The Collected Stories of Thomas Wolfe
  • Wolfe, Tom
    • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    • The Right Stuff
  • Wolff, Mishna
    • I'm Down
  • Wolff, Tobias
    • Back in the World: Stories
    • The Barracks Thief
    • Hunters in the Snow and Other Stories
    • The Night in Question: Stories
    • Old School
    • This Boy's Life: A Memoir
  • Wolf, Naomi
    • The Beauty Myth
  • Wolitzer, Meg
    • The Female Persuasion
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary
    • Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Men
    • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Wong, Shawn
    • American Knees
  • Woodrell, Daniel
    • Winter's Bone
  • Woods, Kate
    • Looking for Alibrandi (Film)
  • Woodson, Jacqueline
    • Another Brooklyn
    • Brown Girl Dreaming
    • Harbor Me
    • If You Come Softly
    • Red at the Bone
  • Woodward, Bob
    • Rage
  • Woolf, Virginia
    • Between the Acts
    • Jacob's Room
    • The Mark on the Wall
    • Moments of Being
    • Monday or Tuesday
    • Mrs. Dalloway
    • Orlando
    • A Room of One's Own
    • Three Guineas
    • To the Lighthouse
    • The Voyage Out
    • The Waves
    • Women and Writing
    • The Years
  • Woolman, John
    • The Journal of John Woolman
  • Woolrich, Cornell
    • "It Had to Be Murder" and Other Stories
  • Wordsworth, Dorothy
    • The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
  • Wordsworth, William
    • The Lucy Poems
    • The Prelude
    • The Thorn
    • Wordsworth's Poetical Works
  • Wright, Alexis
    • Carpentaria
    • The Swan Book
  • Wright, Camron
    • The Rent Collector
  • Wright, Judith
    • Eve to Her Daughters
    • Judith Wright: Poetry
    • Train Journey
    • Woman to Man
  • Wright, Richard
    • "Between the World and Me" and Other Poems
    • Black Boy
    • Eight Men
    • The Man Who Lived Underground
    • Native Son
    • Uncle Tom's Children
  • Wright, Robert
    • Why Buddhism Is True
  • Wroblewski, David
    • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  • Wroth, Mary
    • In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn (Sonnet 77)
    • It is not love which you poor fools do deem (Sonnet 40)
    • Mary Wroth: Sonnets
    • Song (Love a child is ever crying)
    • Song (Love What Art Thou? A Vain Thought)
  • WuDunn, Sheryl
    • Half the Sky
  • Wu, Frank
    • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
  • Wurtzel, Elizabeth
    • Prozac Nation
  • Wyatt, Thomas
    • Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poems
  • Wycherly. William
    • The Country Wife
  • Wyndham, John
    • The Chrysalids
    • The Day of the Triffids
  • Wyndham Lewis
    • Tarr
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