This widely used abridged edition keeps Shakespeare’s original language while making the play more manageable for students to follow, discuss and perform.

This carefully abridged version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream keeps the lovers, fairies, mechanicals, comic confusion and play within the play, while presenting a streamlined script that is easier for students to read, rehearse and perform.

Originally devised for a Theatre in Education tour, this script has been successfully staged with as few as four actors and adapted for larger school casts. It is equally effective for classroom exploration of scenes and for full productions in a drama studio, school hall or theatre space.

This edition includes:

• A streamlined performance script.
• Short scene introductions to guide understanding.
• Staging advice based on real school productions.
• Classroom drama activities to support literary study.

Ideal for classroom work, Shakespeare study, school productions, drama activities, tutoring and home education. Let younger readers meeting Shakespeare for the first time.

Written by an experienced teacher and director, this edition helps students engage actively with Shakespeare’s language, characters and themes. Through both study and performance.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Abridged for Schools and Performance – Shakespeare & KJ O’Hara – 9781502311412.

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When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought. They find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

Orwell’s chilling `fairy story’ is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.

Plongez dans la version originale et intégrale
d’une grande satire du stalinisme qui résonne encore aujourd’hui face à la montée des extrêmes.

Avec la collection NOT SO CLASSIC, lire en anglais devient un vrai plaisir grâce à :

• des notes de vocabulaire en marge (en français et en anglais)
• un dossier complet pour comprendre l’œuvre, ses personnages, ses grands thèmes et son contexte
• des quiz pour mémoriser l’essentiel, de façon ludique
• des activités pour progresser en anglais, grâce au texte d’un auteur d’exception

Animal Farm (Not So Classic) – George Orwell – 9791035810306

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Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat, and he falls sick with a mysterious sickness.

When he wakes, Nat finds himself in 1599, an actor at the original Globe – and his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself: William Shakespeare. Nat’s new life is full of excitement, danger and the passionate friendship that he has longed for since the tragic death of his parents. But why has he been sent to the past – and is he trapped there forever ?

King of Shadows – Susan Cooper –  9781849412742

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach …

Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich – always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled.

And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald – 9780141182636

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An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.

Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ‘The Tempest’ and Shakespeare.

Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of ‘The Tempest’ from around the world.

The Tempest (Cambridge School Shakespeare) – William Shakespeare – 9781107615533

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The island of Gont is a land famous for wizards. Of these, some say the greatest – and surely the greatest voyager – is the man called Sparrowhawk. As a reckless, awkward boy, he discovered the great power that was in him – with terrifying consequences. Tempted by pride to try spells beyond his means, Sparrowhawk lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and the quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.

9780141354910 – Ursula Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea

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The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children’s writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children’s book of the Year Award. When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister’s illness, Michael’s world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain.

Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature – part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael’s help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital.

But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael’s world changes for ever . . .

Skellig by David Almond – 9780340944950

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Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as less innocent than they really are.

Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examines how The Talk shaped moments from childhood to adulthood.

By Darrin Bell – 9781250349958

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To the anger of her brothers, it is Alexandra who is entrusted to manage their family farm in the tough, hostile prairie of Hanover, Nebraska following the death of their father. As the years pass, Alexandra rises heroically to the challenge, finding strength in the savage beauty of the land even as loneliness and personal tragedies crowd in. A rapturous work of understated lyricism, Willa Cather’s 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American.

O Pioneers! – Willa Cather – 9780241338353

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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by ‘gentleman callers’.

Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother’s suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura’s romantic illusions are crushed.

The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams – 9780141190266

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