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James L. Roberts (1929–2006)

Author of CliffsNotes on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

49+ Works 2,013 Members 6 Reviews

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Includes the names: James L Roberts, James L. Roberts, James Lamar Roberts, PhD James L. Roberts, James L Roberts Ph.D, Ph.D. James L. Roberts, Ph. D. Roberts James L., James L. Roberts Ph. D.

Works by James L. Roberts

CliffsNotes on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1964) 269 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (2000) 215 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1963) 179 copies
CliffsNotes on Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1966) 141 copies
CliffsNotes on Miller's Death of a Salesman (1964) 115 copies
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1963) 114 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1960) 100 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (1964) 84 copies
CliffsNotes on Knowles' A Separate Peace (1965) 78 copies
CliffsNotes on Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1964) 78 copies
CliffsNotes on Williams' Glass Menagerie & Streetcar Named Desire (1965) 63 copies
CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (1985) 54 copies
Coles Notes on Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1962) 49 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Minor Plays (1991) 47 copies
CliffsNotes on Conrad's Lord Jim (1962) 46 copies
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's Light in August (1968) 40 copies
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1970) 38 copies
CliffsNotes on Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1982) 34 copies
CliffsNotes on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1984) 32 copies
CliffsNotes on James' Daisy Miller & Turn of the Screw (1965) 29 copies
CliffsNotes on Fielding's Tom Jones (1964) — Editor — 27 copies
CliffsNotes on James' The Portrait of a Lady (1965) 21 copies
CliffsNotes on Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1979) 20 copies
CliffsNotes on Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground (1970) 19 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses (1985) 17 copies
CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers (1989) 14 copies
Coles Notes on The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1968) 12 copies
CliffsNotes on Hemingway's Short Stories (2000) 10 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Bear (1986) 9 copies
Coles Notes on Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1965) — Author — 9 copies
CliffsNotes on Zola's Nana (1980) 8 copies
CliffsNotes on James' The American (1965) 8 copies
CliffsNotes on the Detective in Fiction (1978) 6 copies
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's Short Stories (1997) 5 copies
CliffsNotes on Faulkner's The Unvanquished (1980) 4 copies
CliffsNotes on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 copies
Jane Eyre Notes ( Coles Notes ) (1972) 2 copies
James' the American (1999) 2 copies
CliffsNotes on Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1964) 2 copies
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer CliffsNotes Collection (2012) 2 copies
Conrad Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer (Cliff's Notes) 1 copy
CliffsNotes The Canterbury Tales 1 copy
Hamlet, Cliffs Notes on 1 copy
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, COLES NOTES 1 copy
Apontamentos Europa-América Explicam Herman Melville - Moby Dick, A Baleia Branca Livro 1 (1994) 1 copy
Coles Notes on As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1972) 1 copy
Crime and Punishment: Including Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Commentaries, Character Sketches, Critical Notes 1 copy
CliffsNotes on Schaefer's Shane (1987) 1 copy
Poe's Short Stories (Cliffs Notes) by Lybyer, J. M., Roberts, James L. (January 29, 1981) Paperback 1 copy
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Associated Works

CliffsNotes on Mythology (1973) — Editor, some editions — 451 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Homer's The Odyssey (2000) — Editor — 446 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Hamlet (1971) — Editor, some editions — 433 copies, 3 reviews
CliffsNotes on Greek Classics (1988) 390 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1960) — Editor, some editions — 374 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Macbeth (1960) — Editor — 346 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1971) — Editor — 309 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (1960) — Editor — 285 copies, 3 reviews
CliffsNotes on Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1966) — Editor — 279 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno (1969) — Consulting Editor — 236 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Milton's Paradise Lost (1963) — some editions — 223 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1980) — Editor — 213 copies, 2 reviews
Wuthering Heights (Cliffs Notes) (1979) — Editor — 213 copies
CliffsNotes on Melville's Moby-Dick (1966) — Editor — 197 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Othello (1959) — Editor, some editions — 196 copies, 3 reviews
CliffsNotes on Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1959) — Contributing Editor — 189 copies
CliffsNotes on Virgil's The Aeneid (1966) — Editor, some editions — 182 copies
CliffsNotes on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1965) — Editor — 166 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (2000) — Editor — 149 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's The Tempest (1960) — some editions — 128 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Cervantes' Don Quixote (1964) 122 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden (1964) — some editions — 109 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1966) — Editor — 102 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Miller's The Crucible (1968) 96 copies
CliffsNotes on Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1967) — some editions — 83 copies
CliffsNotes on Sinclair's The Jungle (1970) — some editions — 81 copies
CliffsNotes on Ellison's Invisible Man (1969) 80 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Henry V (1961) 74 copies
CliffsNotes on Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1965) — Editor — 66 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1966) — some editions — 64 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1964) 62 copies
CliffsNotes on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1965) — Editor — 57 copies, 2 reviews
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1960) 51 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Chopin's The Awakening (1980) — Editor — 46 copies
CliffsNotes on Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1959) — Editor — 45 copies
Science Fiction: An Introduction (1973) — Consulting editor — 41 copies
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Comedies (1999) — Consultant Editor — 35 copies
CliffsNotes on Beckett's Waiting for Godot & Other Plays (1980) — Editor — 34 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Tragedies (1999) — Consultant Editor — 30 copies
CliffsNotes on Dickens' Bleak House (1966) — Editor — 28 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Histories (1999) — Consulting Editor — 21 copies
CliffsNotes on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1966) 19 copies
CliffsNotes on Shaw's Pygmalion & Arms and the Man (1981) — Editor — 17 copies
CliffsNotes on Cooper's The Deerslayer (1970) — Editor — 16 copies
CliffsNotes on Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1969) 14 copies
CliffsNotes on Eliot's Mill on the Floss (1966) — some editions — 14 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Skinner's Walden Two (1979) — some editions — 13 copies
CliffsNotes on Steinbeck's The Red Pony, "Chrysanthemums", "Flight" (1978) — Editor, some editions — 12 copies
CliffsNotes on Hilton's Lost Horizon (1980) 8 copies
CliffsNotes on O'Neill's Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape & Mourning Becomes Electra (1966) — Editor — 8 copies
CliffsNotes on James' The Ambassadors (1969) — Editor, some editions — 7 copies, 1 review
CliffsNotes on Wordsworth's The Prelude (1964) — Editor — 7 copies
CliffsNotes on Balzac's Le Père Goriot (1967) — Editor — 4 copies

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Legal name
Roberts, James Lamar
Birthdate
1929-01-15
Date of death
2006-08-01
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Webb, Mississippi, USA
Place of death
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Cause of death
cancer

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Reviews

CliffsNotes on Canterbury Tales by Bruce Nicoll
Standard study guide to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
 
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smichaelwilson | 1 other review | Jul 13, 2021 |
 
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susanlsmith | 1 other review | Jul 16, 2019 |
CliffsNotes Hemingway's Short Stories (Cliffsnotes… by James L. Roberts
This particular Cliffs Notes selection did little to help me understand or appreciate Hemingway's short stories. It mainly summarizes their content, and by the time I finished it, I had no more understanding of why these stories were considered to be significant works of quality. The one exception was "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," (a story I have long admired), as I now better understand the motives of the protagonist's wife. Regarding another Hemingway story that I admire, I am skeptical of author James Roberts' assertions regarding its symbolism. Other stories covered in this work are mainly of the Nick Adams series, and include "The Killers", "Indian Camp", and "The Three Day Blow". Including summaries and commentaries, this work includes an list of characters, a superficial essay on Hemingway's style, and oddly, maps of the stories' settings.… (more)
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danielx | May 18, 2013 |
Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath (Cliffs Notes) by James L. Roberts
I find this a valuable guide to have around as I grade essays on by students. These days, the internet is a more useful tool for searching for plagiarism but good old cliffs notes are still useful. As for the book's real use, it is a good means of interpreting and studing the novel. I always find these notes helpful for checking and verifying my own understanding as for a guick summary. They should never be used as a substitute for the actual book.
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AlexTheHunn | Aug 31, 2007 |
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