Ray Moore: 16 books

Ray Moore’s Study Guides provide insights into important but demanding texts.This fully revised Second Edition includes every poem in Selected Poems, plus six additional poems of particular importance to understanding Plath’s poetic development.Uniquely, this Guide goes through each poem...

Five more mysteries from the Golden Age of Detection. Lyle Thorne investigates five cases spanning the years 1876 to 1889. In Thorne's first ever investigation, his father is accused of murder by a dead man... Having been told to meet his step-father at 1 p.m., a young boy sets off from home at 12.45...

In March 1889, Detective Sergeant Lyle Thorne abruptly resigned from the Metropolitan Police and began training to become an ordained minister in the Church of England. If Thorne had anticipated a quiet, uneventful life at Sanditon vicarage, he was to be disappointed, for his reputation as an investigator attracted a succession of 'clients' each with a remarkable tale.

Do you need help understanding the author's ideas? This thought-provoking guide provides an introduction to the book, lists the characters, details a chapter by chapter commentary, and guiding questions. These prompts will allow you to develop your own ideas and thoughts about the text. Material...

The book is virtually unique in providing: the full text in Middle English, an interlinear translation, introductory chapters on the pilgrims and the narrator, guided study questions on each section of the text, a detailed analysis of the frame story and each portrait, a full bibliography and a guide...

Would you like to develop a deeper understanding of the text?The study guide includes items on the characters, chronology, themes and structure in the novel. It also incorporates a commentary and notes to guide the reader through the text. The guide poses questions to direct the reader to what is...

Tragedy and the randomness of death combine to make Thornton Wilder's Pullitzer prize winning novel one of the truly great texts.The study guide gives a background introduction and overview, including character synopsis. In-depth questions on each chapter along with a helpful commentary will...

The detailed and thorough guide combines a supportive commentary with 58-plus in-depth questions which guide the reader to a deeper understanding of the background, themes, and characters of the text. Even if you know this text well, you will gain new insights. The questions are designed to stimulate...

The book is virtually unique in providing, in a single volume, a comprehensive analysis of The General Prologue. It places the work in the context of the social change in late fourteenth century England. The poem is supported by the author’s own modernization of the text which enables the reader...

Would you like to develop a deeper understanding of the text? Use the helpful commentary and notes to guide you, together with questions to direct you to what is really important as you read. The questions are designed to stimulate thought and discussion and to help explore and understand the underlying...

Here is everything you need to enhance your understanding of Khaled Hosseini's challenging text, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Whether you are reading the book as an individual, as a member of a reading circle or in class, this guide will help you to understand the book at a more meaningful level. The...

In the final set of Reverend Lyle Thorne short stories, our intrepid vicar finds that even in retirement he is still solving mysteries that confound the police.From bank robberies to arson, murder or suicide, the terrors of WW1 all provide intellectual challenges which the Reverend Lyle Thorne loves.Enjoy...

Yet again, Reverend Lyle Thorne is called upon to aid among others... the local Constabulary and the Archbishop of Canterbury. He must pit his wits against those who would try to avoid justice and bring to a satisfying conclusion a Civil War murder over 200 years old.Five stories await your perusal. Can you find the clues that will lead you to the criminals/ murderers?

In March 1889, Detective Sergeant Lyle Thorne abruptly resigned from the Metropolitan Police and began training to become an ordained minister in the Church of England. However, if Thorne had anticipated a quiet, uneventful life at Sanditon vicarage, he was to be disappointed, for his reputation as an investigator attracted a succession of 'clients' each with a remarkable tale.