A Christmas Carol


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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, WJECLevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of A Christmas Carol is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. 'If I could work my will,' said Scrooge, indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.' Miser and misanthropist Ebenezer Scrooge hates the festive season. Can the visitations of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and yet to come shake him from his habits, to show him the true value of Christmas? Dickens's 1843 story was written in response to the plight of the poor, the hungry, the exploited and the uneducated in Victorian society, suggesting that the true test of a society is the way it treats its children.




Jane Eyre


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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, EduqasLevel/Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: Sept 2015First exam: June 2017 Exam board: AQALevel/Subject: A Level English LiteratureFirst teaching: Sept 2015First exam: June 2017 Exam board: Cambridge InternationalLevel/Subject: IGCSE Literature in EnglishFirst teaching: Sept 2018First exam: 2020 This edition of Jane Eyre is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre is foisted upon unfriendly relations, sent to school to suffer illness, injustice and privation, before striking out on her own to earn her living as a governess. Independent and passionate by nature, Jane only begins to discover fulfilment when she takes up a post at Thornfield Hall and gets to know the master Mr Rochester, a man of changeable moods. Yet will Thornfield's secrets and Mr Rochester's past prove obstacles to Jane's happiness? With its gothic atmosphere and first-person narrative, Charlotte Brontë's bildungsroman has captivated readers since its first appearance in 1847.




Frankenstein


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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel; EdexcelLevel & Subject: GCSE English Literature; A Level English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of Frankenstein is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. 'It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.' Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist with huge ambition, exceeds his own expectations when he manages to create life from an assemblage of dead body parts. Yet he has failed to think through the consequences and responsibilities of his action, with fatal results. First published in 1818, this genre-defying novel - part gothic tale, part science fiction, part philosophical exploration - invites us to consider whom we sympathise with: the scientist playing God or the monstrous creature he has created.







The Tempest: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics)


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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel; CXC Level & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC® English B First teaching: September 2015 First examination: June 2017







Pride and Prejudice: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics)


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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC; CXC Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature; Cape Literatures in English First teaching: September 2015; 2016 First examination: June 2017; May-June 2018




The Sign of Four


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Exam board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of The Sign of Four is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. 'Moonlight was streaming into the room, and it was bright with a vague and shifty radiance. Looking straight at me and suspended, as it were, in the air, for all beneath was in shadow, there hung a face...' A mysterious letter, a missing father, stolen jewels and a man found dead in a locked room. Private detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr Watson have their work cut out in a case which takes them through the suburbs of south London, back in time to the forts and swamps of colonial India, and climaxes in a dramatic chase along the river Thames. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 novel is the famous detective's second case.




Great Expectations


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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. In this CBy Light Classics edition, wide margins allow for annotation friendly pages, perfect for the AQA, Exexcel, Eduqas and OCR exam boards, making this an essential for those reading Pride and Prejudice as a set text.What has this student edition got over other editions? Wide margins that you can annotate in Original text, word for word. Designed for the new English GCSE Approved and tested on students! Once you buy a CBy book, you'll never buy anything else again!Visit www.cbypublishing.cf to enquire about bulk special school branded copies!