Saki's 'Sredni Vashtar': Detailed Notes for AS & A-Level Literature - Paperback

by Rosemary O'Leary (Author)

Saki's Sredni Vashtar: Detailed Notes for AS and A-Level Literature (2nd Edition) provides a detailed analysis of the short story Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H.H. Munro) to assist students with their literary studies.

The Guide includes:

- Bibliographical information on Saki, - Information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras which provide the story's social and historical context, - A detailed synopsis, - An analysis of the story's structure in terms of its exposition, development, complication, climax and denouement. - A look at the narrative situation and point of view, - An in-depth discussion on its style and language and - A discussion of its principal themes.

Saki's Sredni Vashtar: Detailed Notes for AS and A-Level Literature is the 2nd book in The A* Way Series of study guides. The objective of these guides is to take students on an analytical journey through a text using a method of close reading and detailed analysis.

Most advanced students of literature should find these notes helpful and indeed those students who are aiming for excellence will find much in them to help raise the level of their engagement with the material.

Author Biography

I am an experienced teacher of AS and A-Level English Literature and have worked predominantly within the Cambridge International Education (CIE) Syllabus. I started writing this series because, in the course of my teaching, I discovered that good resources were scarce especially for those students who were aiming for excellence.

The A* Way Series for Advanced Literary Studies aims to help in this regard. Students enrolled in formal educational institutions or those being home-schooled will also benefit from this series.

I have taught A-Level Literature using this method for many years and my students, almost without exception, have gone on to achieve at their highest potential in their final Literature Studies examinations.