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Philip Allan Literature Guides for GCSE and A-Level
Literature Guides for GCSEThis NEW series is designed to challenge students to reach their full potential and achieve the very best grades.

Written by experienced examiners and teachers, our new full colour guides:
  • Cover contents, context, characters, themes and style
  • Give a full explanation of the Assessment Objectives
  • Provide a range of examples and exercises to demonstrate the skills students need to achieve top grades
  • Improve exam preparation and technique
Plus FREE online resources for every guide at www.philipallan.co.uk/literatureguidesonline These include:
  • Sample essays with examiner comments
  • Interactive questions
  • Revision podcasts
  • Quick revision Flashrevise cards
We've already received some great feedback about the A-level series:

"This new series has come at just the right time; written with a careful eye to the demands of the new exam specs, the authorial voices are refreshingly non-patronising but impressively knowlegeable. Punctuated with wonderfully directive examiner comments, they show students exactly what they have to do to meet their assessment objectives at the highest level.
I will be making sure that my own students buy the guides on the texts that we are studying and highly recommend that other teachers do the same!"

Chair of Examiners of a leading examining board
 

A GCSE evaluation pack is available containing two GCSE Literature Guides: Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men plus sample material from a Literature Guide Teacher Resource Pack.

E-inspection copies: evaluate each title online FREE for a whole month. Click on the titles below to register for your copy.

Each GCSE Literature Guide is supported with a Teacher Resource Pack full of time-saving classroom and homework activities. Each pack is fully photocopiable, with a CD of the text in word for you to tailor lessons as you need to.

GCSE Literature Guides

Lord of the Flies Teacher Resource Pack
Of Mice and Men Teacher Resource Pack
To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher Resource Pack
A View from the Bridge Teacher Resource Pack
An Inspector Calls Teacher Resource Pack
AQA Anthology: Moon on the Tides
(Conflict and Relationships)
 
Teacher Resource Pack
Pride and Prejudice July 2010 Teacher Resource Pack August 2010
Romeo and Juliet July 2010 Teacher Resource Pack August 2010
Anita and Me August 2010 Teacher Resource Pack September 2010
The Woman in Black August 2010 Teacher Resource Pack September 2010
The Crucible January 2011
Great Expectations January 2011
Animal Farm March 2011
Purple Hibiscus April 2011
Macbeth April 2011
The Merchant of Venice April 2011
AQA Anthology: Character and Voice and Place May 2011

 

A-level Literature Guides

The Great Gatsby
Othello August 2010  
Wuthering Heights August 2010  
Jane Eyre September 2010  
Pride and Prejudice September 2010  
Frankenstein September 2010  
The Duchess of Malfi October 2010  
The Winter’s Tale October 2010  
Tess of the D'Urbervilles November 2010  
The French Lieutenant’s Woman November 2010  
The Wife of Bath November 2010  
Translations November 2010  
Hamlet January 2011  
Death of a Salesman March 2011  
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale March 2011  
King Lear April 2011  
Streetcar Named Desire April 2011  
Skirrid Hill May 2011  
Great Expectations May 2011