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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you′re bound to study for school or pleasure. <p> In <i>CliffsNotes on Asimov′s Foundation Trilogy and Other Works,</i> you explore the American author′s original three Foundation books, the three Empire novels, <i>The End of Eternity</i>, and <i>The Gods Themselves</i>. <i>The Foundation Trilogy</i>, written between 1951–53 is celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov′s most famous work. In the three–book series, he portrays the ruin and rebirth of a futuristic interstellar empire. <p> In this study guide, you′ll find Life and Background on the Author, Introduction to Asimov′s Science Fiction, and Critical Commentaries on <i>Foundation, Foundation</i> <i>and Empire,</i> and <i>Second Foundation</i>, plus a look inside the following other titles by this prolific writer: <ul type="disc"> <li><i>Pebble in the Sky</i> <li><i>The Stars, Like Dust</i> <li><i>The Currents of Space</i> <li><i>The End of Eternity</i> <li><i>The Gods Themselves</i> </ul> <p> Classic literature or modern–day treasure — you′ll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
