Spies
York Notes Advanced

By Anne Rooney
Notes By Mary Green
October 2007
Longman / Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781405861830
135 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 1/4"
$17.95 Paper Original

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For more than 25 years, York Notes have been helping students throughout the UK to get the inside track on the written word.

Firmly established as the nation’s favourite and most comprehensive range of literature study guides, each and every York Note has been carefully researched and written by experts to make sure that you get the most wide-ranging critical analysis, the most detailed commentary and the most helpful key points and checklists.

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. Written by established literature experts, they introduce students to a more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Contents Include:

Part 1: Introduction
How to Study a novel
Reading Spies
Part 2: The Text
Note on the text
Synopsis
Detailed Summaries
Extended Commentaries
Part 3: Critical Approaches
Characterization
Themes
Structure
Language
Narrative technique and structure
Part 4: Critical History
Spies & Critical Movements
Part Five: Background
Michael Frayn's life and work
Historical Background
Literary Background
Social Setting
Chronology



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