Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; and a review quiz and essay topics. Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
Many of the editions by this group of authors are actually guides to books rather than the works.
If the author of the SparkNotes is known, they should be the first author. Please leave these SparkNotes Editors as the second author and the author of the original work as the last author. Do not combine with the original work. Do not put the author of the ORIGINAL work first.
Spark Notes are like Cliff's Notes' little sibling. They get the job done, but they're not quite the same. Still, they do provide good supplemental material and can help in bringing out ideas you might have otherwise missed. When used alongside the original novels (not in lieu of) the can really enhance the experience. I'm just not sure there was quite as much there in this one as in others. 3.5 stars