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Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, CXC
Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature, CAPE Literature
First teaching: September 2015
Next exams: 2025
This edition of Hard Times provides depth and context for A Level students, with the complete novel in an easy to read format, and a detailed introduction and bespoke glossary written by an experienced A Level teacher with academic expertise in the area.
· Affordable high quality complete text of Charles Dickens Hard Times
· Perfectly pitched introductions provide the depth and demand required by AS and A Level English
· Explore the contemporary context, Charles Dickens' writing, the novel's critical reception and subsequent interpretations for a deeper reading of the text
· Expand your further reading with a list of key articles and critical and theoretical texts
· Improve your understanding of the novel with unfamiliar concepts and culturally-specific terms defined in the glossary
About the author
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced 'Oliver Twist', the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day. Maria Cairney currently teaches in a sixth form college in Manchester. She is an experienced A Level English Literature and English Language teacher and examiner with a PhD in Victorian literature and a special interest in 19th century serialised fiction by writers such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle. Before becoming a teacher, Maria was also, for many years, a magazine journalist and editor.
Summary
Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, CXC Level & Subject: AS and A Level English Literature, CAPE Literature First teaching: September 2015 Next exams: 2025
