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The ultimate guides for the very best grades!
Philip Allan Literature Guides for GCSE and A-level are designed to challenge students to reach their full potential and achieve the very best grades.

Written by experienced examiners and teachers, these new full colour guides:
  • Cover contents, context, characters, themes and style
  • Give a full explanation of the Assessment Objectives
  • Provide a range of examples and exercises to demonstrate the skills students need to achieve top grades
  • Improve exam preparation and technique
For FREE online resources for all the guides and packs visit www.philipallan.co.uk/literatureguidesonline

We've already received some great feedback about the A-level series:

"I will be making sure that my own students buy the guides on the texts that we are studying and highly recommend that other teachers do the same!"

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A GCSE evaluation pack is available containing two GCSE Literature Guides: Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men plus sample material from a Literature Guide Teacher Resource Pack.

E-inspection copies: evaluate each title online FREE for a whole month. Click on the titles below to register for your copy.

Teacher Resource Packs are available to support some of the GCSE Literature Guides. These packs are full of time-saving classroom and homework activities, are fully photocopiable and come with a CD of the text in Word for you to tailor lessons as you need to.

 

GCSE Literature Guides

  Sample
online
resource
 
Lord of the Flies   Teacher Resource Pack
Of Mice and Men   Teacher Resource Pack
To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher Resource Pack
A View from the Bridge  Spider diagram Teacher Resource Pack
An Inspector Calls  Spider diagram Teacher Resource Pack
AQA Anthology: Moon on the Tides
(Conflict and Relationships)
 
  Teacher Resource Pack
Pride and Prejudice  Pride and Prejudice FlashRevise cards Teacher Resource Pack
Romeo and Juliet  Romeo and Juliet - honour spider diagram Teacher Resource Pack
Anita and Me  Anita and Me - Sample essays Teacher Resource Pack
The Woman in Black  Woman in Black - spider diagram Teacher Resource Pack
The Crucible
Great Expectations
Animal Farm
Purple Hibiscus
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
AQA Anthology: Character and Voice and Place

 

A-level Literature Guides

  Sample
online
resource
The Great Gatsby  The Great Gatsby - FlashRevise cards
Othello  Othello - sample essay
Wuthering Heights  Wuthering Heights - Essay planning
Jane Eyre  Jane Eyre - sample essay
Pride and Prejudice  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen podcast
Frankenstein  Frankenstein - Answers to tasks
The Duchess of Malfi  The Duchess of Malfi - download pageturn flash revise cards
The Winter’s Tale  The Winter's Tale - sample essay
Tess of the D'Urbervilles  The Winter's Tale - sample essay
The French Lieutenant’s Woman  The Winter's Tale - sample essay
The Wife of Bath  The Duchess of Malfi - download pageturn flash revise cards
Translations  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen podcast
Hamlet  
Death of a Salesman    
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale    
King Lear    
Streetcar Named Desire    
Skirrid Hill    
Great Expectations