A Christmas carol - Cindy Torn

• Board: AQA


• Examination: English Language & Literature


• Specification: GCSE 9-1
• Set Text covered:
  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


• Type: Set Text Study Guide

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Combined revision and practice books for A Christmas Carol
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Books in this series cover the following:

• Paper
  1 Section A - Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth)


• Paper 1 Section B - Nineteenth-century novel (The Sign of
  Four, A Christmas Carol, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
  and Mr Hyde)


• Paper 2 Section A - Modern texts (Blood Brothers, An
  Inspector Calls,Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies)


• Paper 2 Sections B and C - Poetry (Love and Relationships
  anthology, Power and Conflict
  anthology and Unseen)

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