Insight Text Guide: Ghost Wall

Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts.

They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.

The guides are written by practising English teachers, professional writers, reviewers and academics who are experts in their fields.

Each guide presents a clear, comprehensive and accessible analysis.

There are over 150 titles in the Insight Text Guides series and new titles are published every year.

EACH TITLE FEATURES:

• An overview of the text for quick reference, including notes on the author’s life and work, a plot synopsis, a character map and brief character summaries
• Discussion of the historical, cultural and social contexts relevant to the text
• Close analysis of each chapter/scene/story, with chapter questions
• Detailed analysis of characters, themes and ideas
• Discussion of different responses to and interpretations of the text
• Guidelines on successful essay writing
• Essay topics, a sample analysis of a topic and a sample essay on the text.

Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts.

They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.

The guides are written by practising English teachers, professional writers, reviewers and academics who are experts in their fields.

Each guide presents a clear, comprehensive and accessible analysis.

There are over 150 titles in the Insight Text Guides series and new titles are published every year.

EACH TITLE FEATURES:

• An overview of the text for quick reference, including notes on the author’s life and work, a plot synopsis, a character map and brief character summaries
• Discussion of the historical, cultural and social contexts relevant to the text
• Close analysis of each chapter/scene/story, with chapter questions
• Detailed analysis of characters, themes and ideas
• Discussion of different responses to and interpretations of the text
• Guidelines on successful essay writing
• Essay topics, a sample analysis of a topic and a sample essay on the text.

Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts. They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world famous classic.