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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; Peter Merchant (Introductions and notes by); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens is a disturbing and powerful blend of Gothic melodrama and historical realism. This novel was Charles Dickens's first historical novel. Barnaby Rudge was published serially starting in 1840 in Master Humphrey's Clock. The story takes place against the backdrop of the Gor ...Show more
Christmas Carol (Cloth-bound HB) by Charles Dickens
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Category: 8-12+ Years | Series: Collector's Editions Ser.
A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a ...Show more
Christmas Carol (abridged ed. HB) by Charles Dickens; Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
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Category: Seasonal | Series: Palazzo Abridged Classics Ser.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form. Following the life of David through ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most mem ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Maurice Greiffenhagen (Illustrator); F. Walker (Illustrator); Dinny Thorold (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mr ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Collector's Edition) by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers.With Oliver Twisthis reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, despe ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Marcus Stone (Illustrator); Deborah Wynne (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collection | Reading Level: very good
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands su ...Show more