GCSE English Set Texts
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Oxford Playscripts : Noughts & Crosses
Dominic Cooke's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the bestselling novel by Malorie Blackman. First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2007.
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 136
- MBE Code : 333
Oxford Playscripts: Dracula
He is known as Nosferatu, the Undead.
He will always be able to find you.
He can walk through a door that is locked and he can change his shape.
One day he may look like a man but then the next he could change. Sometimes he may be a ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 199
Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein
This engaging and orientated classroom play script of Frankenstein includes the famous storyline of a young man who thinks he can change the world, by creating better and improved human beings. But instead creates a living monster, who has a mind of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 80
- MBE Code : 181
Oxford Playscripts: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A reputable doctor's mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrilling endings in English literature.
Features
Exciting adaptations of modern and classic novels, and a range ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 334
Oxford School Shakespeare: 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
Oxford School Shakespeare: 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
Oxford School Shakespeare: 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
Oxford School Shakespeare: Macbeth
Our Oxford Shakespeare Macbeth book includes explanatory illustrations, annotations or on-page notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. It was made incredibly accessible to students offering rigorous scholarly credentials ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 127
- MBE Code : 103
Oxford School Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a popular text for study by secondary school students, across the globe. Included in the Oxford School Shakespeare collection, which is an acclaimed edition which has been specifically designed for students.
With the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 121
Oxford School Shakespeare: 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
Oxford School Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
The romantic tragedy that steals a tear from readers and audiences alike in the 21st century as it did in Elizabethan England. Our discount prices cannot be beaten and the Oxford School Shakespeare titles have been designed for the perfect learning ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 142
- MBE Code : 105
Oxford School Shakespeare: The Merchant Of Venice
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. The Merchant of ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 136
Oxford School Shakespeare: 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
Oxford School Shakespeare: The Tempest
The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary school students, across the globe. Included in the Oxford School Shakespeare collection, which is an acclaimed edition which has been specifically designed for students.
With the included:
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- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 142
Oxford School Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a comedic addition to the famous creations of Shakespeare himself, including the story-line of a cross-dressing, ship-wrecking surviving and poetry-loving girl who finds herself in a not-so-normal love triangle.
The Oxford School ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 174
Pigeon English
Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 272
- MBE Code : 138
Princess And The Hustler
"My name is Phyllis Princess James. I will wear this crown every day. I will never take it off even when I am asleep."
Meet Princess. A cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-Super-Mare Beauty Contest. Trouble is, her mum is busy working...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 521
Romeo & Juliet – Annotation Edition
This annotation edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragi-comedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 254
- MBE Code : 532
Romeo & Juliet
This Scholastic Classics edition of Romeo And Juliet is the well-known comedy/tragedy created by Shakespeare. Perfect for every student's progression through their education in English and enjoyed even more by every Shakespeare enthusiast alike.
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- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 298
Stone Cold
The title of Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-Winning thriller, created by the author Robert Swindells. This intense thriller plot has been combined with the perceptive and distressing portrait of what life is like on the streets, as a serial killer ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 126
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
The endearing character of Bruno, is just a nine-year-old boy, who knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.
He is oblivious to all of the appalling cruelties which are being afflicted on the people of Europe. By his Country. And all ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 228
- MBE Code : 110
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 Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
Christopher is a 15-year-old boy who lives in Swindon, just him and his father. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of Autism.
He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but he finds it hard to understand other people.
However, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 122
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – The Play, Critical Scripts
This schools' edition of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel adapted for the stage of the National Theatre by Simon Stephens is perfect for Key Stages 3 and 4. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 160
- MBE Code : 247