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Embrace your inner bookworm with plot summaries, infographics, character maps, and in-depth analysis for all your favorite books.
About SparkNotes
Sometimes you don't understand your teacher, your textbooks make no sense, and you have to read sixteen chapters by tomorrow.
SparkNotes is a resource you can turn to when you're confuzzled. We help you understand books, write papers, and study for tests. We're clear and concise, but we never leave out important info.
As SparkNotes editors, our mission is to help you make sense of confusing schoolwork. We are well qualified to lend a hand: we're graduates of top schools, we have advanced degrees galore, we've taught undergraduate and graduate classes, and we've edited books on Shakespeare, The Scarlet Letter, and the SAT (and that's just the S's!). We work with experts to create books, blogs, quizzes, and flashcards that will help you master hard material.
Our Stuff
At SparkNotes, we give you multiple ways to study: online, on your eReader, and with good old books. Here's what we offer:
SparkNotes Guides: Our guides contain thorough summaries and insightful critical analyses. We offer more than 500 guides for English literature and Shakespeare, and a vast number of guides for history, math, biology, and other subjects. Our most popular guides now include quick quizzes, so you can test your retention before the test.
No Fear Shakespeare: No Fear Shakespeare provides side-by-side translations of Shakespeare into plain English. No Fear Shakespeare is available online and in book form.
Test Prep: We provide books and online content to prepare you for the SAT, ACT, AP Subject Tests, and GRE.
Flashcards: Our online flashcards will help you study for biology, history, literature, and SAT and ACT vocabulary.
SparkLife: Our blog, SparkLife, will make you LOL. It helps explain school and life with posts about homecoming, lunch, teachers, and procrastinating techniques; thoughtful advice on stupid boy/girlfriends; quizzes and polls; original artwork; and blogs on Twilight, Lord of the Flies, and other popular books.
SparkNotes on Facebook and Twitter: Become a fan of SparkNotes on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. We'll post updates, give you new homework help, and let you know what's new on SparkLife.
We're always evolving and creating new content, and we welcome your input and requests!
Plagiarism and Cheating
We're here to help you learn, not to help you cheat. Our literature guides are meant to be read along with the books they analyze. They are not intended to be copied on tests or papers (aka plagiarized).
Our mission is to make education accessible.
With short and fun videos, taught by great teachers, we help students easily master any subject and achieve their educational goals.