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 and beautifully designed to help students understand, and enjoy, great works of literature. They are perfect for coursework, revision and exam preparation. Connell Guides are also great reads themselves scholarly, yet approachable and entertaining.
An instant popular success when first published in 1847, Jane Eyre was everywhere praised for its riveting power. But, says Josie Billington, it is easy to forget just how shocking the novel was to its 19th century readers. One of the most romantic of stories, it also challenges at every turn the stereotypes on which it rests, not simply in having a plain, rebellious heroine and a hero who is neither young nor handsome nor chivalrous, but in the way it suggests sensual love can be a force for good and in its passionate commitment to depicting the struggle of an individual towards fulfilment.
“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...
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...
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales Study Guide
£7.99
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...
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles Study Guide
£7.99
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...