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Fig Tree, 2024. Hardcover. New. 400 pages. 8.74x5.71x1.46 inches.

Hardback. New. <p><b>An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.</b></p><p><br />How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to speak out? What can Lady Macbeth teach us about empathy? Should our expectations for our future be any greater than Pip’s? And why is it so important to make space for these conversations in the first place?<br /><br />In a career spanning almost three decades, English teacher Carol Atherton has taught generations of students texts that will be familiar to many of us from our own schooldays. But while the staples of exam syllabuses and reading lists remain largely unchanged, their significance – and their relevance – evolves with each class, as it encounters them for the first time.<br /><br />Each chapter of <i>Reading Lessons… Read More

London: Fig Tree, 2024. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Each chapter of Reading Lessons invites us to take a fresh look at the novels, plays and poems that we may have studied and analysed at school. Includes Jane Eyre, Macbeth and Great Expectations. Discusses how they may have shaped our beliefs and our values and emphasises the importance of reading and literature study in schools..