<b><i>by Homer<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Odyssey</i>, one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to <i>The Iliad</i>, the other work ascribed to Homer.</p><p>The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, <i>The Iliad</i> being the oldest.</p>

<b><i>by John Knowles<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>A Separate Peace</i> by John Knowles. Based on his earlier short story, <i>Phineas</i>, it was Knowles' first published novel and became his best-known work.</p>

<b><i>by Ray Bradbury</i><p><i>WARNING!</i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</p></b><p>In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i> Fahrenheit 451 </i> a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.</p><p>The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and 'firemen' burn any that are found. The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of paper.</p>

<b><i>by Arthur Miller<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>The Crucible</i>, a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.</p><p>It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government blacklisted accused communists.</p>

<b><i>by George Orwell<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>1984</i> by George Orwell.</p><p>The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of war, government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as 'thoughtcrimes&'.</p>

<b><i>by Emily Brontë<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, a novel by Emily Brontë, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.</p><p><i>Wuthering Heights</i> is the name of the farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors where the story unfolds. The book's core theme is the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have, both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities.</p>

<b><i>by John Steinbeck<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Of Mice and Men</i>, a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California, United States.</p>

<b><i>by Oscar Wilde<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>, by Oscar Wilde. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. </p><p>Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil&'s, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henryé';s world view....</p>

<b><i>by George Orwell<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Animal Farm</i>, an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. </p><p>According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union.</p>

<b><i>by Charlotte Brontë<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> </p><p>In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i> Jane Eyre </i>, by Charlotte Brontë.</p><p><i>Jane Eyre</i> follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and love for Mr. Rochester, master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.</p><p>In its internalisation of the action - the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility - the novel revolutionised the art of fiction.</p>

<b><i>by Harper Lee<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p>In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>, by Harper Lee.</p><p>The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality.</p><p>As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence.</p>

<b><i>by F. Scott Fitzgerald<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>The Great Gatsby</i>, a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.</p>

<b><i>by William Golding<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.</p>

<b><i>by William Shakespeare<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.</p><p>It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.</p>

<b><p>WARNING! These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</p></b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse the Old English epic poem <i>Beowulf</i>, consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature due to the fact that it is the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English and also the earliest vernacular English literature.</p>

<b><i>by Mary Shelley<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p>In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Frankenstein</i>, a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.</p><p>Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.</p>

<b><i>by Charles Dickens<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain inappropriate language</b><p> </p><p>In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Great Expectations</i>, Charles Dickens thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. </p><p> Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip.</p>

<b><i>by Jane Austen<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.</p><p>The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.</p>

<b><i>by Sophocles<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Oedipus the King</i> also known as <i>Oedipus Rex</i>, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.</p><p><i>Oedipus Rex</i> chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta.</p>

<b><i>by William Shakespeare<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Hamlet</i>, by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, who is Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet&'s father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old kingé';s widow and Prince Hamlet's mother.</p>

<b><i>by Aldous Huxley<p>WARNING!</p></i> These videos require age-appropriate viewing as they contain explicit language</b><p> In this video by <i>Thug Notes</i> we summise and analyse <i>Brave New World</i>, a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932.</p><p>Set in London of AD 2540, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine to profoundly change society.</p>