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Student Text Guides

Student Text Guides
This combination provides students with the opportunity to:

  • develop a deeper understanding of the text
  • form a more considered response to essay questions
  • strengthen your exam technique and improve your grades

This series provides invaluable content guidance and practical exam advice to help focus student revision of popular AS/A-level set texts.

Written by experienced examiners and teachers, each guide comprises three sections:

  • an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives, and offers a revision scheme with a suggested programme for using material in the guide
  • Content Guidance, which presents succinct and accessible coverage of key aspects of the text, including contexts, controversies and interpretations, glossaries and timelines, and sections on character, theme and symbol
  • Questions and Answers, which focus on various types of essay question and offer specimen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

Titles available:

AS/A-level titles  GCSE titles 
Arcadia     A Kestrel for a Knave  
Atonement     Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage & Pre-1914 Poetry  
Birdsong   Heroes  
Captain Corelli's Mandolin     Lord of the Flies
Doctor Faustus  (January 2010)   Of Mice and Men  
Frankenstein     Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke
  & Pre-1914 Poetry
 
Hamlet   To Kill a Mockingbird  
High Windows      
Jane Eyre    
Measure for Measure        
Much Ado About Nothing        
Othello        
Pride and Prejudice        
Songs of Innocence and of Experience        
Spies        
Tess of the D'Urbervilles        
The Alchemist        
The Duchess of Malfi        
The Ghost Road      
The Great Gatsby      
The Merchant's Prologue & Tale        
The Miller's Prologue & Tale        
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale (June 2009)    
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy        
The Poetry of John Keats    
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale (June 2009)    
The Tempest        
The White Devil        
The Whitsun Weddings        
The Winter's Tale        
'Tis Pity She's a Whore    
Wuthering Heights