A Christmas Carol: Full Text with Annotations and Key Quotations
Scholastic's completely annotated set texts are designed to help students prepare for their closed book AQA GCSE English Literature examinations
This full-colour ready-annotated edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is perfect for students. It includes
- The full novella
- Detailed annotations on each page
- Definitions of tricky vocabulary
- Organised lists of key quotations
The full text of the novella is set on an easy-to-read cream background with wide margins on every page providing helpful annotations about the key information on that page. This takes the student step-by-step through the novella highlighting useful insights about the characters and plot as well as addressing the main themes and context. At the bottom of each page definitions are supplied to aid the understanding of unusual or archaic language used within the text.
At the back of the book students will find a helpful guide to key quotations from the novella. Each quotation will reference where it appears in the novella as a whole and identified with an at-a-glance 'key' symbol.
- Examination: English Literature
- Specification: GCSE 9-1
- Set Text covered: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Type: Set Text - Complete Annotated
About the novella: Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the three ghosts of Christmas. They show him the joy of Christmas, and wretchedness of his own legacy. Inspired and chastened by what he has seen, Scrooge resolves to change and from then on embraces and promotes the true spirit of Christmas with kindness, generosity and warmth.
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