Secondary class sets

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A schoolboy has to flee his home when soldiers come to recruit children to join their army, and makes a perilous journey to try and find safety in England.

Reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways.

After her friend is taken a girl begins a journey with her animal companion through a dangerous country of ice and witches to find him

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

Set in 1995, a Nigerian girl and her brother smuggled to London are abandoned and they must cope with the police, social services and school bullies.

A 16-year-old girl is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of her unarmed friend

A teen boy and girl from opposing factions in society take on the system and try to change it.

A girl makes friends with a boy who has lived in a detention centre for refugees all his life.

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

An eleven-year-old boy is permanently confined to an isolation unit due to an immune system disorder, but conspires with his new nurse to have an adventure outside.

Two classic stories about the split personality of a Victorian doctor and a man taking refuge in a remote Scottish pavilion.

Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin to question whether their witty banter and verbal sparring conceal something deeper, Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this dazzling, dark-edged comedy of mature love and second chances.

A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves that explores falsehood, justice and humanity's best and basest instincts.

Sent by mistake to a juvenile correction centre, a teen boy discovers the wardens are using the boys as manual labour to find a buried treasure

Dickens' classic story about a young orphan who falls in with criminals on the streets of London.

A German boy befriends a Jew in a concentration camp, without realising the significance of the facility

A boy who lives and works on a rubbish mountain, finds a bag with money and a map, which the police are very keen to get their hands on

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

A ten year old boy has to come to terms with the death of his older sister and the break up of his family.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

An old man recounts his experience as a young soldier at the front during World War I

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

An edition of the play Julius Caesar which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A student's edition of the Shakespeare play, including notes and contextual information.

A boy is brought up by ghosts in the local graveyard after his family is killed by a murderer

Full text of this Arthur Miller play.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

Charts the descent into chaos of a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash.

A boy must make a radical medical decision.

Study edition of the classic play in which a police inspector questions the members of a family about the suicide of a young woman.

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls.

Play set in the trenches of the First World War.

Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

A lawyer who visits a remote village on business finds the house he is staying in is haunted by a ghost.

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H.G. Wells' invasion narrative, now considered a classic of science fiction.

A homeless teen boy must evade a serial killer after other homeless kids start disappearing from the streets

The women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.

Set in the Great Depression in the US, two migrant ranch workers encounter trouble on a farm. Dyslexia-friendly edition.

Two classic stories about the split personality of a Victorian doctor and a man taking refuge in a remote Scottish pavilion.

Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin to question whether their witty banter and verbal sparring conceal something deeper, Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this dazzling, dark-edged comedy of mature love and second chances.

A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves that explores falsehood, justice and humanity's best and basest instincts.

Follows the life of an 11-year-old Ghanaian boy living in inner city London and his ill-fated mission to find the person who knifed a boy from his school.

A semi-autographical novel about a young woman discovering her sexuality and escaping her strict northern upbringing.

The classic romantic story about of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

The classic horror story about a scientist who creates his own human being using cadavers dug up from graveyards.

#Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

A ten year old boy has to come to terms with the death of his older sister and the break up of his family.

George Orwell's chilling fable of Soviet Russia's brutal dictatorship, Animal Farm brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism.

'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage...she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it' Kenneth Tynan, Observer A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when first produced in London by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1958.

Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic.

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

A stark, uncompromising tragedy which unsparingly shows that Irish gaiety and song are the despairing camouflage for a dirge. It is the waste that is tragic - Juno's staunchness has to suffer a shiftless strutting husband, "Captain" Jack Boyle, the "Paycock" of the title. True, there are moments of raucous comedy, but they are satire: O'Casey's revelations by antithesis.

Schools' edition of the stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's multi-award-winning novel for the National Theatre by Simon Stephens.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where's the incentive to put things right?

An edition of the play Julius Caesar which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A student's edition of the Shakespeare play, including notes and contextual information.

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them.

Classic story about a boy whose life is changed by a mysterious benefactor.

Full text of this Arthur Miller play.

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Set in a Mother and Baby Home in 1964 in the north of England and peppered with songs from the period, the book follows the fortunes of Mary Adams, unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to the home by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary has to cope with the drawing realisation that the baby has to be given up for adoption.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

Jane Austen's classic love story following the romantic fortunes of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters.

In this first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.

Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his 1968 world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.

Set over two days in a house just outside the Irish village of Ballybeg, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters, their brother Jack who is a priest and the illegitimate son of the younger sister.

Charts the descent into chaos of a group of boys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash.

Study edition of the classic play in which a police inspector questions the members of a family about the suicide of a young woman.

Playscript of Hobson's Choice with notes, questions and activities.

Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.

Keatley's play is about three generations of women in one family. It is widely studied for A level and this volume is equipped with a substantial introduction by the author, featuring the background and a discussion of themes and character

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life.

Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the war, young Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and his identity when he goes back home to Frenchtown. For his past holds a bitter secret, one which he has vowed to revenge and which he can resolve only through his final, desperate plan: to destroy the man who betrayed him as a boy, bringing Francis dishonour and guilt.

Follows the life of a West African warrior as his world changes and falls apart around him.

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls.

Play set in the trenches of the First World War.

Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

A lawyer who visits a remote village on business finds the house he is staying in is haunted by a ghost.

#During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

The story of nine-year-old Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington.

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Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.

Wilfred Owen's war poetry collected for the anniversary of the 1918 Armestice.

Hardy's classic tale of doomed romance and betrayal.

The classic, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions - and revisions - of female identity. Simultaneously stripping women bare and revealing them in all their guises and disguises, these poems tell tall stories as though they were true confessions, and spin modern myths from real women seen in every aspect - as bodies and corpses, writers and workers, shoppers and slimmers, fairytale royals or girls-next-door.

The classic romantic tragedy of two doomed lovers.

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Annotated edition of the novel for students at IGCSE and A level

Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy where women are subjugated, one woman attempts to gain individualism and independence.

Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold, Lady Windemere and her infamous fan and Wilde's take on an ideal husband, in this selection of Wilde's most important plays.

Follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman in post-First World War England

Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, the pair begin to question whether their witty banter and verbal sparring conceal something deeper, Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this dazzling, dark-edged comedy of mature love and second chances.

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects.

A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain - her brother's life in exchange for her virginity. One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves that explores falsehood, justice and humanity's best and basest instincts.

Follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high-society woman in post-First World War England

Anniversary edition of a romance story set during World War 1

Classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since

In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable to understand each other, they embarked on one of the most unusual experiments in British art as the pitmen learned to become painters. Within a few years the most avant-garde artists became their friends, their work was taken for prestigious collections and they were celebrated throughout the British art world; but every day they worked, as before, down the mine.

Caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce, witness to their battles, intrigues and affairs, neglected and exploited, Maisie is a child who knows too much about the world of adults. James' portrait of a little girl who maintains her goodness and dignity in the face of the bitterness and profligacy of her warring parents is both thought-provoking and inspiring.

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels.

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated by his father - an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in the New World - but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. An innovative, multi-lingual novel, Call It Sleep subtly interweaves the overwhelming love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity amidst the cultural disarray of early twentieth-century America.

A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems

An art teacher falls in love then goes to fight in France during the First World War

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. Detailed annotation helps the reader to visualize the plays in performance and the Introduction argues for the importance of Behn's skilful stagecraft and her great success as an entertainer. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

In this outlandish, outrageous triumph of scandal fiction, a new Lady Audley arrives at the manor: young, beautiful - and very mysterious. Why does she behave so strangely? What, exactly, is the dark secret this seductive outsider carries with her?

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The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War.

A new cover design edition of Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, about Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave who escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft.

Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children.

This poignant and harrowing play is set in the early years of the First World War, as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true terror of warfare gradually becomes clear. It depicts both the experiences of the men at the front and the women who were left behind to face social changes, deprivation and the lies of propaganda. While often comic vignettes portray the everyday life of a town bereft of men, the men face the horror that is the Battle of the Somme.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

Annotated study edition of this Shakespeare play.

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterise the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953.

A collection of poems, written during the three years leading up to the poet's death

Set in the deep south of America in 1962 the friendship of black maids raising the children of middle class white people

An edition of the play Julius Caesar which includes notes, commentary and scene summaries, with some photographs of productions.

A student's edition of the Shakespeare play, including notes and contextual information.

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his.

Presents the text of Caryl Churchill's play

Hailed as a masterpice from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy.

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Text of this classic Williams play

Text of the play which focuses on the turbulent relationships within a wealthy Mississippi family

Bram Stoker's classic horror story about the vampire Dracula

Provides the play text with commentary and background notes.

Provides literary and dramatic analysis of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.

A psychiatrist struggles with his moral code against his duty while treating wounded soldiers during the First World War

The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg.

#At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded man converses with a suspicious American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, Changez begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting, describing his incredible rise to success-from his privileged upbringing in Pakistan to his first job, fresh from Princeton, at an elite firm in New York.

Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive this poetry collection from one of Great Britain's rising young talents. The collection revolves around the poems "Y Gaer" and "The Hillfort," the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide in Wales, from poems concerned with childhood, a Welsh landscape, and family to an outward-looking vision that is both geographic and historic.

Annotated edition of the Shakespeare play, for schools use.

Provides the full text of John Webster's play and includes background information and study notes.

Doctor Faustus exists in two versions, both of which were edited from performances in the time of Marlowe. Both are considered to be authentic, but there are notable differences, both the b text containing additional scenes as well as different wording.

Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

A well-documented chronological collection of poems written by Hughes covering his relationship with Sylvia Plath.

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).

Flanders, June 1917, a British officer is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. This novel presents a historical drama, and explores some fundamental questions such as: What is murder? What is justice in the face of daily slaughter?

An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy, "The Recruiting Officer". With a cast of convicts, opposition from sadistic officers and a leading lady who is due to be hanged, Australia's first theatrical production is in trouble from the start.

The classic story about a strict father whose children become tangled up in a bank robbery and failed marriage ruining the family's reputation

The classic Victorian gothic novel about a man who exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.

Autobiography of the English poet and novelist Robert Graves

Play set in the trenches of the First World War.

Fitzgerald's classic tale of jazz-era New York and the mysterious, party-throwing millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Poetry from the First World War thematically arranged by time.

The friendship between two soldiers at the Front during the First World War

A novel set during the First World War

From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves, the author has created a collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

This World War I novel is a German author's attempt to tell - through the persona of a young, "unknown soldier" - of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were betrayed and destroyed by the war.

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame and forgiveness, atonement and the possibility of absolution.

In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.