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Color Purple (York Notes Advanced) English Literature Study Guide - for 2026, 2027 exams(2003) MCEWAN, NEIL'York Notes for GCSE' offer an approach to English Literature that aims to help readers achieve a better grade. This series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today's students. The new editions have detailed summaries, commentaries on keyVezava: Mehka11,58 € -
How Novels Work(2008) MULLAN, JOHN (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON)This book draws on the author's column in The Guardian, 'Elements of Fiction'. Using examples from well-known recent novels, it examines the techniques by which fiction works. It will widen the vocabulary of anyone interested in contemporary fiction, notVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Miracles of Life(2008) BALLARD, J. G.J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Peeling the Onion(2008) GRASS, GUNTERPeeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, onVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Heart of Darkness: York Notes Advanced - for 2026, 2027 exams(2004) CONRAD, JOSEPHThe most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A LevelVezava: Mehka11,58 € -
Lions and Shadows(2013) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London’s BohemiVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Careless People(2014) CHURCHWELL, SARAHA fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The Great Gatsby were sownVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Facts(2007) ROTH, PHILIPHow does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake?Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: York Notes GCSE - for 2026, 2027 exams(1997) PILGRIM, IMELDA'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characVezava: Mehka9,25 € -
Wide Sargasso Sea(2000) RHYS, JEANBorn into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate whichVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Little Learning(1990) WAUGH, EVELYNThe author's childhood was warm, bright and serene. The Hampstead and Lancing schooldays which followed were sometimes agreeable, but often not. His life at Oxford - which he evokes in Brideshead Revisited - was essentially a catalogue of friendship. ThisVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Letters 1941-1985(2014) CALVINO, ITALOThe author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Jane Austen(2012) TOMALIN, CLAIREA title that involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader. It presents Austen as remarkably clever; sensitive, but sentimental; tough, yet observant; guarded; and a woman with the devil of a gVezava: Mehka18,21 €
