| Parent company | York Press/Pearson Education |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | 322 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JH |
| Official website | www.yorknotes.com |
York Notes are a series of English literature study guides sold in the United Kingdom and in approximately 100 countries worldwide.
They are sold as revision material for GCSE and A-level exams particularly as literary guides to introduce students to sophisticated analysis and perspectives of the specific title. The guides for A-level are sold under the name York Notes AS/A2, the GCSE guides under the name York Notes for GCSE with each guide attributed to its relevant author. There is also a range of York Notes Companion titles aimed at undergraduate level study.
In recent years the brand has launched York Notes Plus – a series of enhanced digital editions incorporating interactive materials.
York Notes Advanced
| Author (Alphabetical by Surname) | Book Title | ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| Atwood, Margaret | Cat's Eye The Handmaid's Tale | 0-582-78436-0 |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park Persuasion Pride and Prejudice Emma | n/a n/a n/a 1-405-80172-7 |
| Bennett, Alan | Talking Heads | n/a |
| Blake, William | Selected Poetry and Prose | n/a |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | 0-582-82305-6 |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights | n/a |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Franklin's Tale The Miller's Tale Prologue to the Canterbury Tales The Wife of Bath | n/a n/a n/a n/a |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Selected Poems | 0-582-42480-1 |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | n/a |
| Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations Hard Times | n/a n/a |
| Dickinson, Emily | Selected Poems | n/a |
| Donne, John | Selected Poems | n/a |
| Duffy, Carol Ann | Selected Poems | n/a |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch The Mill on the Floss | n/a n/a |
| Eliot, T. S. | Selected Poems | n/a |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | 0-582-82310-2 |
| Forster, E. M. | A Passage to India | n/a |
| Friel, Brian | Translations | n/a |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge The Return of the Native Selected Poems Tess of the d'Urbervilles | n/a n/a n/a n/a |
| Heaney, Seamus | Selected Poems from Opened Ground | n/a |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The Scarlet Letter | n/a |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The Remains of the Day | n/a |
| Joyce, James | Dubliners | n/a |
| Keats, John | Selected Poems | n/a |
| Marlowe, Christopher | Doctor Faustus | n/a |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman All My Sons | 978-0-582-78425-3 n/a |
| Milton, John | Paradise Lost (Books 1 and 2) | n/a |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved | n/a |
| Shakespeare, William | Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Hamlet King Lear Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Richard II Romeo and Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest The Winter's Tale | n/a n/a 0-582-78428-X 0-582-78429-8 n/a n/a n/a n/a 0-582-78431-X n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Saint Joan | n/a |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | 0-582-82301-3 |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple | n/a |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Importance of Being Earnest | n/a |
| Winterson, Jeanette | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | n/a |
| Williams, Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire | n/a |
| Woolf, Virginia | To the Lighthouse | n/a |
| Yeats, W. B. | Selected Poems | n/a |
York Notes for GCSE
| Author (Alphabetical by Surname) | Book title | ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
| Robert Cormier | Heroes' | |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | |
| Ayckbourn, Alan | Absent Friends | |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Selected Poems | |
| Bolt, Robert | A Man for All Seasons | |
| Brighouse, Harold | Hobson's Choice | |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights | |
| Delaney, Shelagh | A Taste of Honey | |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield Great Expectations Hard Times Oliver Twist | |
| Doyle, Roddy | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss | |
| Frank, Anne | The Diary of a Young Girl | |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | |
| Goldsmith, Oliver | She Stoops to Conquer | |
| Hall, Willis | The Long and the Short and the Tall | |
| Hardy, Thomas | Far from the Maddling Crowd The Mayor of Casterbridge Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Withered Arm and other Wessex Tales | |
| Hartley, L. P. | The Go-Between | |
| Heaney, Seamus | Selected Poems | |
| Hill, Susan | I'm the King of the Castle | |
| Hines, Barry | A Kestrel for a Knave | |
| Lawrence, Louise | Children of the Dust | |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill A Mockingbird | |
| Lee, Laurie | Cider With Rosie | |
| Miller, Arthur | The Crucible A View From The Bridge | |
| O'Brien, Robert | Z For Zachariah | |
| O'Connor, Frank | My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories | |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | |
| Priestley, J. B. | An Inspector Calls When We Are Married | |
| Russell, Willy | Educating Rita Our Day Out | |
| Salinger, J. D. | The Catcher In The Rye | |
| Shakespeare, William | Henry IV Part 1 Henry V Julius Caesar Macbeth The Merchant of Venice A midsummer NIght's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night | |
| Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion | |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | |
| Sherriff, R. C. | Journey's End | |
| Rukshana Smith | Salt on the Snow | 0582368391 |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde | |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels | |
| Swindells, Robert | Daz 4 Zoe | |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn | |
| Watson, James | Talking In Whispers | |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | |
| Wordsworth, William | Selected Poems | |
| Poems from Different Cultures- an Anthology | ||
| A Choice of Poets | ||
| Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century including The Signalman | ||
| Nineteenth Century Short Stories | ||
| Poetry of the First World War | ||
| Six Women Poets |
See also
- BookRags
- CliffsNotes
- Coles Notes
- SparkNotes
- Video study guide