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PaperStarter.com offers students of all levels assistance in coming up with a workable thesis statement or essay topic. Here you will find detailed paper topics, essay ideas, thesis statements (that can also be used as study questions or essay prompts) on many novels, short stories, and plays with explanations on how to move from the initial idea to the final product. In addition to the thesis statements, each text also has a corresponding list of some of the most important quotes. These important quotations explained will not only help to provide textual evidence within a quality essay, but might also lead to new ideas about possible themes to explore aside from those already listed. You can use these thesis statements and quotes as a study guide to help you plan for your essay and they might even provide you with prompts we didn't think to include. In short, by using PaperStarter.com as a resource, students are encouraged to think for themselves about the plot and meanings of books—something that will be demonstrated through an essay full of original ideas and insights. Whether these are used as thesis statements alone, essay starters, or general study questions, students will have a greater chance to connect with important works of literature. After all, sometimes all it takes to create an “A” essay is a little push in the right direction…
The following is a current list of all the titles arranged in alphabetical order by the book or story title. Every text listed here acts as both a study guide and group of essay starters by offering students between 3-5 well-explained, detailed, unique, and insightful possible thesis statements. Following each set of essay topics and thesis statements is a list of around ten or more important quotes from the text. Most contain page numbers and the edition of the text cited so you can easily find the quotes in your book and look for more that are related. Just click on the link to the title you want and you'll be transported to a place where essay writing becomes instantly less stressful and students can find a summary and analysis of the most important aspects of books.
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1984 George Orwell The Aeneid Virgil Antigone Sophocles The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid
Animal Farm George Orwell As You Like It William Shakespeare The Awakening Kate Chopin
Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
Beloved Toni Morrison Beowulf Anonymous The Blue Hotel Stephen Crane The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne Brave New World Aldous Huxley Candide Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Cannery Row John Steinbeck
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Cathedral Raymond Carver
The Color Purple Alice Walker Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crucible Arthur Miller Daisy Miller Henry James Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Dracula Bram Stoker
The Dubliners James Joyce Everyday Use Alice Walker Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Hamlet William Shakespeare The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The House of Mirth Edith Wharton House of the Spirits Isabel Allende
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde The Iliad Homer The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Lady With the Dog Anton Chekhov
Like One of the Family Alice Childress Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill Lord of the Flies William Golding
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold Macbeth William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare Measure for Measure William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby Dick Herman Melville My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk Narrative of the Life Frederick Douglass
Native Son Richard Wright Night Elie Wiesel The Nun Denis Diderot
The Odyssey Homer Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oroonoko Aphra Behn Othello William Shakespeare Paradise Lost John Milton
Petrified Man Eudora Welty Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope A Rose for Emily William Faulkner A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry
The Rape of Lucrece William Shakespeare Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
The Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta Richard III William Shakespeare
Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence Souls Belated Edith Wharton The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. DuBois
The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence The Storm Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
The Stranger Albert Camus A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Sula Toni Morrison
Sweat Zora Neale Hurston The Swimmer John Cheever Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzche Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
The Tragedy of Coriolanus William Shakespeare Travels with Charley John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Trifles Susan Glaspell Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden Henry David Thoreau Wicked Gregory Maguire Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
Women in Love D.H. Lawrence The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
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