GCSE English Set Texts
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The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Crucible
Arthur Miller has created a classic storyline of a building hysteria, which extracts a frightening parallel between the Salem Witch-Hunt of 1692 and the American anti-communist purges, which were led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s.
Described to ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 175
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
Christopher is a 15-year-old boy who lives in Swindon, just him and his father. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of Autism.
He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but he finds it hard to understand other people.
However, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 122
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – The Play, Critical Scripts
This schools' edition of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel adapted for the stage of the National Theatre by Simon Stephens is perfect for Key Stages 3 and 4. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 247
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (Methuen Drama)
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507.
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 100
- MBE Code : 639
The Great Gatsby
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 177
- MBE Code : 151
The Handmaids Tale
Offred, Fred Waterford being her assigned name, where Offred means “Of Fred”, due to herself only having one function… To breed.
She is a Handmaid, living the Republican of Gilead, which is a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 232
The History Boys
The History Boys is based around an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form students who are in pursuit of only three topics in mind, sex, sport and a place at either Oxford or Cambridge University.
And, also following their several teachers, one...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 166
The Hound Of The Baskervilles
The Hound Of The Baskervilles concludes the storyline of Sir Charles Baskerville who is found dead along the wild Devon Moor with only the footprints of a giant dog present that's nearby, where ultimately everyone blames the phantom hound that has ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 187
The Prince Of Mist
The year is 1943 and as the war sweeps across Europe. Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen… Max discovers a garden filled with eerie ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 206
The Sign Of Four – Annotation Edition
This annotation edition featuring Conan Doyle’s famous detective is perfect for students and Sherlock enthusiasts alike. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations.
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- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 256
- MBE Code : 577
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Annotation Edition
This annotation edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's account of man's capacity for evil is as powerful today as it was on first publication in 1886. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 156
- MBE Code : 531
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
A classic tale of good versus evil - acted out through one man. Two conflicting characters, ultimately from one complete conscious/unconscious mind. You can enthrall your class with a classic. Our set texts come with fitted jackets and you can order ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 104
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Dyslexia Friendly)
Stevenson's classic story of split personalities lurking beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society. Now available in an accessible format for all readers.
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 204
- MBE Code : 486
The Woman In Black
Author Kipps is a junior solicitor, who is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of the Eel Marsh House.
This house stands towards the end of a causeway, that is wreathed in multitudes of fog and mystery… But ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 200
- MBE Code : 118
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 617
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lawyer Atticus Finch gives his advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel, where a black man was charged with the rape of a white girl.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 124