A-Level English Literature

Unit 5 - Literary Connections

The extended essay  is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding parts of the A-Level course. The requirement is simply to write a 3000 word essay comparing two texts of the student's choice.

The text can be novels, plays, literary biographies or collections of poems.

Students are free to choose their own texts and questions and are given individual tuition on all of the stages from texts to finished essays. 

What are the similarities and differences between Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary?

Do novels about the future tell us about the future?

How does the use of an unreliable narrator affect our reading of Fowles', The Collector and Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory?

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