York Notes
Publisher: York Press. Country: Lebanon. Date: c. 1981-
Joint Publisher: Longman Group (UK) Limited. Country: U.K. Date: c. 1981-
Front cover of:
York Notes on The Iliad (Homer)
Beirut, Lebanon, and Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman, York Press, 1988.
(York Notes/Longman Literature Guides)
ISBN: 0582792274
YORK NOTES (YORK PRESS AND LONGMAN GROUP)
Series Note: "York Notes are a series of English literature study guides sold in the United Kingdom and in approximately 100 countries worldwide." (Wikipedia)
In 1986 this series was being co-published by the York Press (Immeuble Esseily, Place Riad Soth, Beirut, Lebanon) and the Longman Group UK Limited (Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE, England).
The general editors of York Notes in 1986 were Professor A. N. Jeffares (University of Stirling) and Professor Suheil Bushrui (American University of Beirut).
The copyright of some of the York Press titles in this period -- e.g. Notes on Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (1981, 1986 reprint) --- belonged to the Librairie du Liban.
In 1986 titles in this series were produced by Longman Group (FE) Ltd and printed in Hong Kong.
Arranged alphabetically by author and title
CHINUA ACHEBE
A Man of the People
Arrow of God
Things Fall Apart
EDWARD ALBEE
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
ELECHI AMADI
The Concubine
ANONYMOUS
Beowulf
Everyman
JOHN ARDEN
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
AYI KWEI ARMAH
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
W. H. AUDEN
Selected Poems
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
Mansfield Park
N orthanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
HONOREDE BALZAC
Le Pere Goriot
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
SAUL BELLOW
Henderson, The Rain King
ARNOLD BENNETT
Anna of the Five Towns
WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
ROBERT BOLT
A Man For All Seasons
ANNE BRONTE
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
EMILY BRONTE
Wuthering Heights
ROBERT BROWNING
Men and Women
JOHN BUCHAN
The Thirty-Nine Steps
JOHN BUNYAN
The Pilgrim's Progress
BYRON
Selected Poems
ALBERT CAMUS
L'Etranger (The Outsider)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale
The Knight's Tale
The Merchant's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
Troilus and Criseyde
ANTON CHEKHOV
The Cherry Orchard
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Selected Poems
WILKIE COLLINS
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Hound of the Baskervilles
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Way of the World
JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim Nostromo
The Secret Agent Victory
Youth and Typhoon
STEPHEN CRANE
The Red Badge of Courage
BRUCE DAWE
Selected Poems
WALTER DE LA MARE
Selected Poems
DANIEL DEFOE
A Journal of the Plague Year
Moll Flanders
Robinson Crusoe
CHARLES DICKENS
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
David CopperfieId
Great Expectations
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Nicholas Nickleby
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
The Pickwick Papers
EMILY DICKINSON
Selected Poems
JOHN DONNE
Selected Poems
THEODORE DREISER
Sister Carrie
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Middlemarch
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss
T. S. ELIOT
Four Quartets
Murder in the Cathedral
Selected Poems
The Cocktail Party
The Waste Land
J. G. FARRELL _
The Siege of Krishnapur
GEORGE FARQUHAR
The Beaux Stratagem
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Go Down, Moses
The Sound and the Fury
HENRY FIELDING
Joseph Andrews
Tom Jones
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender is the Night
The Great Gatsby
Back cover of York Notes on The Iliad (Homer)
"York Notes are idea study guides for English Literature 'A' laevel and GCSE students, and also provide good background information for first year university level. Covering major works from medieval to modern English literature, and contemporary works from America, the Commonwealth and the Third World.
York Notes offer a high standard of literary criticism, stimulating ideas and thought-provoking questions. Each guide is written by an expert and will help the reader to think independently about the text being studied.
Included in all York Notes:
A biography of the author; The literary and historical background to the work; A summary of the text; A glossary of the text;Commentaries; Hints for study - to help plan work and study effectively; A specimen essay; Suggestions for further reading."
E. M. FORSTER
A Passage to India
Howards End
ATHOL FUGARD
Selected Plays
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Strife
MRS GASKELL
North and South
WILLIAM GOLDING
Lord of the Flies
The Inheritors
The Spire
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
She Stoops to Conquer
The Vicar of Wakefield
ROBERT GRAVES
Goodbye to All That
GRAHAM GREENE
Brighton Rock
The Heart of the Matter
The Power and the Glory
THOMAS HARDY
Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
Selected Poems
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return of the Native
The Trumpet Major
The Woodlanders
Under the Greenwood Tree
L. P. HARTLEY
The Go-Between
The Shrimp and the Anemone
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The Scarlet Letter
SEAMUS HEANEY
Selected Poems
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The African Stories
The Old Man and the Sea
GEORGE HERBERT
Selected Poems
HERMANN HESSE
Steppenwolf
BARRY HINES
Kes
HOMER
The Iliad
ANTHONY HOPE
The Prisoner of Zenda
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Selected Poems
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
The Rise of Silas Lapham
RICHARD HUGHES
A High Wind in Jamaica
THOMAS HUGHES
Tom Brown's Schooldays
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Brave New World
HENRIK IBSEN
A Doll's House
Ghosts
Hedda Gabler
HENRY JAMES
Daisy Miller
The Europeans
The Portrait of a Lady
The Turn of the Screw
Washington Square
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Rasselas
BEN JONSON
The Alchemist
Volpone
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Dubliners
JOHN KEATS
Selected Poems
RUDYARD KIPLING
Kim
D. H. LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Women in Love
CAMARA LAYE
L'Enfant Noir
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mocking-Bird
LAURIE LEE
Cider with Rosie
THOMAS MANN
Tonio Kroger
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Doctor Faustus
Edward II
ANDREW MARVELL
Selected Poems
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Of Human Bondage
Selected Short Stories
J.MEADE FALKNER
Moonfleet
HERMAN MELVILLE
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
THOMAS MIDDLETON
Women Beware Women
THOMAS MIDDLETON and WILLIAM ROWLEY
The Changeling
ARTHUR MILLER
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost I & II
Paradise Lost IV & IX
Selected Poems
V.S. NAIPAUL
A House for Mr Biswas
SEAN O'CASEY
Juno and the Paycock
The Shadow of a Gunman
GABRIEL OKARA
The Voice
EUGENE O'NEILL
Mourning Becomes Electro
GEORGE ORWELL
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-four
JOHN OSBORNE
Look Back in Anger
WILFRED OWEN
Selected Poems
ALAN PATON
Cry, The Beloved Country
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle
HAROLD PINTER
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker
PLATO
The Republic
ALEXANDER POPE
Selected Poems
THOMAS PYNCHON
The Crying of Lot 49
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Ivanhoe
Quentin Durward
The Heart of Midlothian
Waverley
PETER SHAFFER
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV Part II
Henry V
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnets
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Androcles and the Lion
Arms and the Man
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Major Barbara
Pygmalion
Saint Joan
The Devil's Disciple
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Selected Poems
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN
The School for Scandal
The Rivals
WOLE SOYINKA
The Lion and the Jewel
The Road
Three Short Plays
EDMUND SPENSER
The Faerie Queene (Book I)
JOHN STEINBECK
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Pearl
LAURENCE STERNE
A Sentimental Journey
Tristram Shandy
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
TOM STOPPARD
Professional Foul
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver's Travels
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE
The Playboy of the Western World
TENNYSON
Selected Poems
W.M.THACKERAY
Vanity Fair
DYLAN THOMAS
Under Milk Wood
EDWARD THOMAS Selected Poems
FLORA THOMPSON
Lark Rise to Candleford
J. R. R.TOLKIEN
The Hobbit The
Lord of the Rings
CYRIL TOURNEUR
The Revenger's Tragedy
ANTHONYTROLLOPE
Barchester Towers
MARK TWAIN
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
VIRGIL
The Aeneid
VOLTAIRE
Candide
EVELYN WAUGH
Decline and Fall
A Handful of Dust
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
The White Devil
H. G. WELLS
The History of Mr Polly
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
ARNOLD WESKER
Chips with Everything
Roots
PATRICK WHITE
Voss
OSCAR WILDE
The Importance of Being Earnest
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Glass Menagerie
VIRGINIA WOOLF
To the Lighthouse
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Selected Poems
W. B. YEATS
Selected Poems
Source of the above list:
Harper Lee/To Kill a Mockingbird. Notes by Rosamund Metcalf. York Press (Beirut, Lebanon) and Longman Group UK Limited (Harlow, Essex, UK), first published 1981, reprinted 1986 (York Notes series). ISBN: 0-582-78201-5.
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