Futurum News 102:  Electronic Literary Guides (PDFs)

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Literary Guides (PDFs)

Literary Guides / New Novels

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2012 Special Prices:

Fields of Vision 1 or 2:
kr. 229,50 ex. (-15%)

American Ways:
kr. 209,50 ex. (-15%)

Longman Dictionary of Contemp. English PB + DVD-Rom:
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Standalone DVD-Rom:
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Royal Shakespeare Company editions:
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More good offers coming in Futurum News 103!


Goodnight Mister Tom (Michelle Magorian) 

New possibilities in your teaching!

These literary guides from "Bookclub-in-a-Box" are designed to help readers explore novels rather than tie them to one particular interpretation. This fits in well with the Danish way of teaching. They are flexible — teachers can pick and choose what they need to use.

These PDFs can be read on just about any computer, tablet, reader etc.

Typical Contents:
Introduction
(Suggested Beginnings; Novel Quickline; Key to the Novel; Author Information etc.); Characterization; Focus Points and Themes; Discussion Questions; Writing Style and Structure (Grammar; Narration; Story Structure etc.); Symbols; Last Thoughts.

• An individual licence gives a student the right to use the guide in his/her studies. It gives a teacher the right to use the guide in the preparation of his or her teaching. It must not be distributed to students or other teachers.

• A school licence means the guide can be distributed to students or teachers at the purchasing school, installed on computers in the library etc.

Atonement (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Disgrace (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

The Hours (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Kite Runner (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Lovely Bones (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Never Let Me Go (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

Reluctant Fundamentalist (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel

White Tiger (PDF Literary Guides)
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

The Novel


Did you see

Futurum News 100: Non-Fiction?


Here are 5 new novels we have added together with the PDF Literary Guides. Level: 2nd and 3rd Years of Gymnasium/Reading Groups

The Ash Garden (by Dennis Bock) The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)

The Ash Garden novel: kr. 76,00 ex.
PDF Guides:
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

What would happen if a Hiroshima survivor enounted one of the scientists responsible for the atomic bomb? Dennis Bock's poignant novel explores what happens half a century after the bomb was dropped, when Anton and Emiko finally stand face-to-face. Author: Dennis Bock.

The Corrections novel: kr. 119,50 ex.
PDF Guides:

INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

A great panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the troubled Lambert family. It brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty into collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and New Economy millionaires. Author: Jonathan Franzen.

The Help [filmed as “Niceville”] (by Kathryn Stockett) The Poisonwood Bible (by Barbara Kingsolver)

The Help (Niceville) novel: kr. 96,00 ex.
PDF Guides:
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

Enter the vanished world of Mississippi, 1962. Black maids raise white children but aren't trusted. Aibileen, the maid, Minny, the sassy cook, and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, form an unlikely friendship, one few people would tolerate. But each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries and rely upon the others. Author: Kathryn Stockett.

Poisonwood Bible novel: kr. 85,00 ex.
PDF Guides:
INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist, takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. We follow the family's disintegration and reconstruction. The background is the Congo's bloody fight for independence and the world order that robs it of its autonomy. Nathan is part of the assault on Africa. His daughters, who arrive with racial ideas from 1950s Georgia, must work out their own responsibility. A post-colonial classic. Author: Barbara Kingsolver.

Room novel: kr. 96,00 ex.
PDF Guides:

INDIVIDUAL Licence: Kr. 94,00 ex. (-15%)
SCHOOL Licence: Kr. 399,50 ex. (-15%)

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma in a small locked room. Jack and Ma are prisoners. It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited.He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing on TV is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ... Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.  Author: Emma Donoghue.


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