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Mary Shelly's Frankenstein Study Guide
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“There never was a wilder story imagined,” wrote one reviewer on the first publication of Frankenstein in 1818. What is perhaps most extraordinary is that Mary Shelley’s novel, capable of producing shock and terror in its unprepared readers, was the work of a young woman of 18. Few works of...
Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca Short Study Guide
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This short study guide tells you all you need to know about Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully designed...
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Study Guide
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All you need to know about Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are...
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre Study Guide
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All you need to know about Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise...
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Study Guide
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The Tales covered by this guide include: The Knight's Tale The Miller's Tale The Reeve's Tale The Wife of Bath The Franklin's Tale The Pardoner's Tale Our next edition, published September 2016, will also include The Merchant's Tale. All you need to know about Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Study Guide
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All you need to know about Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear,...
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Study Guide
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All you need to know about Emily Brontë's's Wuthering Heights is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise...
Charles Dickens's Hard Times Study Guide
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All you need to know about Charles Dickens's Hard Times is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise...
Jane Austen's Emma Study Guide
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All you need to know about Jane Austen's Emma is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and...
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations Study Guide
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All you need to know about Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise...
Jane Austen's Persuasion Study Guide
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Persuasion was first published in 1818, after Jane Austen’s death. The novel was hardly reviewed at all when it appeared, but over time has become probably the favourite Austen book after Pride and Prejudice. One was written when Austen was a young, marriageable woman, the other when she was in...
George Eliot's Middlemarch Study Guide
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All you need to know about George Eliot's Middlemarch is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and...
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Study Guide
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All you need to know about Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides are clear, concise and beautifully...
Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd Study Guide
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All you need to know about Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are advanced guide books that offer sophisticated analysis and broad critical perspectives for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature students. Written by leading academics, Connell Guides...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde Guide
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Stevenson’s short novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, became an immediate best-seller when first published in 1886, selling 40,000 copies in England alone during the first six months after its publication. Is it “a work of philosophic intention, or simply the most ingenious and irresponsible of fictions”,...
