A Level English Literature Texts
We can supply texts from any of the exam boards to cover your A Level requirements. Students will study three texts: one prose, one poetry and one drama text, at least one of which must be written post-2000. They will also respond to an unseen prose extract in the exam. Competitive discounts and free next day delivery available.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. This Penguin Modern Classics ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 135
Anita & Me
The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The title of Anita & Me reflects on the character of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family, surrounded in the Black Country mining village of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 336
- MBE Code : 205
Atonement
Set on the hottest day of the Summer in 1935, the character of thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis encounters her sister strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain, located in the garden of their country house. Also watching her is Robbie Turner,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 249
Death Of A Salesman
Set in the late 1940s, Willy Loman is a salesman living in New York City with his wife, Linda, where he has lived in the same house for the last twenty-five years. Now on his last legs, failing at his job, dismayed at the failure of his sons to live ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 234
Hamlet
This classic story created by the great William Shakespeare is based on Prince Hamlet, who is summoned home to Denmark in regards to his Father’s death. With himself being in a state of mourning and despair, he is further disturbed and heartbroken ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 204
Jane Eyre
This gothic infused masterpiece includes explosive passion, dark secrets and acclaimed to be one of the greatest love stories of all time. Jane Eyre tells the journey of a humble, plain governess who falls deeply in love with the dashing gentleman, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 624
- MBE Code : 143
Journey’s End
Journey’s End is an unflinching vision of life, which is dedicated around the surrounding trenches towards the end of the First World War, and published to you in Penguin Classic, here at MBE.
Concerned around a group of British officers, who ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 171
Julius Caesar
The most famous of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies, which uncovers a man who discovers that the consequences of a single act of violence cannot be either envisaged or controlled.
The Oxford School Shakespeare of Julius Cesar is an acclaimed ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 218
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is a modern classic which reflects one woman’s struggle to come to terms with the haunting memories of her past.Savagely separated from her German-Jewish parents, nine-year-old Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 111
King Lear
Acclaimed to be one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, this story is opened in ancient Britain, where the elderly man, King Lear, has decided to give up his power and divide his realm amongst his three daughters Cordelia, Regan, and Goneril....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 224
- MBE Code : 239
Othello
As the scene begins at night, in the city of Venice. The character of Iago, who is an ensign in the Venetian Army is bitter about being passed over for lieutenant in favour of Cassio. Leading to twisted lies, betrayal and in the end, deathly ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 150
The Color Purple
Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 270
- MBE Code : 460
The Crucible
Arthur Miller has created a classic storyline of a building hysteria, which extracts a frightening parallel between the Salem Witch-Hunt of 1692 and the American anti-communist purges, which were led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s.Described to be ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 175
The Great Gatsby
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 177
- MBE Code : 151
The Handmaids Tale
Offred, Fred Waterford being her assigned name, where Offred means “Of Fred”, due to herself only having one function… To breed.
She is a Handmaid, living the Republican of Gilead, which is a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 324
- MBE Code : 232
The Prince Of Mist
The year is 1943 and as the war sweeps across Europe. Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen… Max discovers a garden filled with eerie ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 240
- MBE Code : 206
The Taming Of The Shrew
Bringing in a comedy and entertainment value within his work, the story of The Taming Of The Shrew, which includes a mischievous nobleman who tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.
The ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 190
Wuthering Heights
The heartbreaking story of Wuthering Heights includes the tumultuous and passionate relationship between the gypsy foundling characters, Heathcliff and the wealthy, Catherine Earnshaw. However, despite her love for Heathcliff, Catherine marries the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 400
- MBE Code : 207