Lewis Carroll's Alice Novels - MR Francis Jonathan Gilbert Ma

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Are you a student wanting to discover more about Lewis Carroll's brilliant novels Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass?

Or are you an educator wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this entertaining, pre-1900 text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book?

This edition of Carroll's charming, crazy stories contains a comprehensive study guide to the work as well as extensive questions for students to work on in order to help their understanding. Aimed specifically at pupils reading the book as an exam text, there is a detailed introduction which outlines how to understand the difficult language, how to write top grade essays, and how to discuss the contexts of the novel. The complete text is punctuated by useful comments and engaging tasks on every chapter with answers provided at the back as well as significant teaching points.