Key features of this text:

• How to study the text
• Author and historical background
• General and detailed summaries
• Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style
• Glossaries
• Test questions and issues to consider
• Essay writing advice
• Cultural connections
• Literary terms
• Illustrations
• Colour design

 

Key features of this text: *How to study the text *Author and historical background *General and detailed summaries *Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style *Glossaries *Test questions and issues to consider *Essay writing advice *Cultural connections *Literary terms *Illustrations *Colour design

Hana Sambrook was educated at the Charles University in Prague and at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for some years as an editor in Scottish educational publishing, and was later on the staff of the Edinburgh University Library. Now a freelance editor in London, she is the author of several York Notes.

2006-04-01 Prehaps it was my fault but ...

The analysis of the peoms is not superb. Adequate, but nothing so profound that I'd buy this knowing the actual POEMS are not included, which is what I bought this book for. I figure if they're going to publish a book of analysis, they may as well include the poems (as quotations were from the Duchess of Malfi in the same series).
Personally I found Cambridge's Contexts in Literature 'The Great War in British Literature' much better, providing great amounts of social, political and literary context, as well as a fair amount of novel extracts, poems, letters and essays AND advice on how to approach and write about texts. Seriously, that book teaches the subject better than some teachers I've had. Buy that : )