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  • The English Language

    W. F. Bolton, David Crystal

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Feb. 1, 1994)
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  • The Victorians

    Arthur Pollard

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Feb. 1, 1994)
    None

  • English Drama to 1710

    Christopher Ricks

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Aug. 1, 1994)
    None

  • The Victorians

    Arthur Pollard

    Library Binding (Peter Bedrick Books, Dec. 1, 1987)
    Essays cover Dickens, Arnold, the Brontes, Trollope, Thackeray, Eliot, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, and Victorian theater

  • The English Language

    W. F. Bolton, David Crystal

    Library Binding (Peter Bedrick Books, Dec. 1, 1987)
    Essays on language cover sounds, word forms, syntax, vocabulary, social contexts, and varieties of English

  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzerald - 1920s

    Laura Hensley

    Hardcover (Heinemann Library, Sept. 11, 2006)
    A unique series linking literary classics with history for Key Stage 3. Each title can be used as a project resource for the study of literary works and authors and at the same time it teaches students about historical periods relating to the works.

  • Animal Farm - George Orwell - Totalitarianism History in Literature: The Story Behind...

    Haydn Middleton

    Hardcover (Heinemann Library, )
    None

  • The Story Behind John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

    Brian Williams, Brenda Williams

    Library Binding (Heinemann, Sept. 8, 2006)
    How does this novel expose the racism of the 1930s? How was life changing for women in the 1930s? How did the Great Depression influence John Steinbeck? Discover how the Great Depression inspired the story of two lonely drifters.

  • The Story Behind Anne Holm's I Am David

    Mary Colson

    Library Binding (Heinemann, Sept. 8, 2006)
    What was the Gulag? How did the extreme political situations of the mid-twentieth century rob thousands of a childhood? Where did Stalin find workers for his Five Year Plans? Discover how the Cold War in Europe inspired an epic journey to freedom.

  • Four Greek Plays

    Kenneth McLeish

    Paperback (Longman, )
    None

  • The Story Behind Willa Cather's My Antonia

    Elizabeth Raum

    Library Binding (Heinemann, Sept. 8, 2006)
    How does this novel explore the immigrant experience in the United States? Which of Willa Cather's real-life friends was the model for Antonia? Who was Red Cloud? Discover how the hard lives of farmers and pioneers in the American West were captured in the story of one young immigrant.
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  • The Story Behind Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbord

    Bryon Giddens-white

    Paperback (Heinemann Intl Inc, April 30, 2008)
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