Silas Marner: York Notes for GCSE

Author: Clare Findlay
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582772717
Category : General Certificate of Secondary Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Everything you need to know about Silas Marner to succeed in your GCSE Literature exam or essay task. With the widest coverage and in-depth analysis, York Notes for GCSE: Silas Marner give you everything you need to know about Eliot's tale of fatherhood, friendship and betrayal in nineteenth-century rural England. There are full summaries of each chapter along with analysis of key characters and themes such as 'Everyday life' and 'Duty', and help with understanding structure and language. You'll also find a wealth of practical content including advice on using quotations, a sample essay plan, further questions and tips on improving your grade.

English Language and Literature Revision and Exam Practice: York Notes for GCSE (9-1) ebook edition

Author: Mary Green
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 1292245735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description

Silas Marner Illustrated

Author: George Eliot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by Mary Ann Evans. It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Author: John Polley
Publisher: Pearson York Notes
ISBN: 9780582506268
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
This edition of York Notes for Romeo & Juliet has been replaced with a brand new edition which is available to buy now with the ISBN9781408248829.

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

Author: Ruth Robbins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582414709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Key Features: Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes and techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical and literary background Modern and historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Author: Sarah Rowbotham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582368323
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Key features of this text: How to study the text Author and historical background General and detailed summaries Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style Glossaries Test questions and issues to consider Essay writing advice Cultural connections Literary terms Illustrations Colour design

Silas Marner

Author: George Eliot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451530622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The classic novel of hope, redemption, and the indomitable human spirit, from beloved novelist George Eliot. In this heartwarming classic by George Eliot, a gentle linen weaver named Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous theft actually committed by his best friend. Exiling himself to the rustic village of Raveloe, he becomes a lonely recluse. Ultimately, Marner finds redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. Somber, yet hopeful, Eliot’s realistic depiction of an irretrievable past, tempered with the magical elements of myth and fairy tale, remains timeless in its understanding of human nature and has been beloved for generations. With an Introduction by Frederick R. Karl and an Afterword by Kathryn Hughes

English Revision for Leaving Cert Higher Level

Author: Martin Kieran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781804582077
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Less Stress More Success provides all you need to get the best possible results in your exams. Here is your complete course condensed, organised and prioritised: Expert tips on how to maximise your points in the exam Highlights key information for you In-context exam questions help you apply what you've just learned Easy-to-use revision guide covering all sections of Paper 1 and Paper 2 Leaving Certificate Higher Level English (2025 and 2026) Essential tips for effective time management and identifying key aspects of questions (updated in line with the most recent SEC examination papers) Full sample essays and exam-focused notes on plots, characters, themes and styles for popular single texts: King Lear (2025) and Macbeth (2026) Comparative study modes explained, using key scenes, useful quotes and model answers Helpful study notes and sample answers on using three comparative study texts prescribed for both 2025 and 2026: Small Things Like These, Sive and The Shawshank Redemption Detailed revision notes and sample essays on prescribed poets for examination in both 2025 and 2026: Tracy K. Smith and T. S. Eliot Graded sample essays (with examiner's comments) on Patrick Kavanagh, Sylvia Plath, Paula Meehan and Seamus Heaney

Charlotte Gray

Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804152608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life. Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed. When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 9780783803517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
One of Hardy's most powerful novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge" opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard--having gained power and success as the mayor--finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. "The Mayor of Casterbridge" is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative 1912 Wessex edition, as well as Hardy's map of Wessex.