Charles Dickens
6) Hard Times
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Language
English
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Description
'Hard Times' is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. This edition contains an appendix of the author's working notes, together with an introduction and full explanatory notes.
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Series
Everyman's library volume 211
Language
English
Description
The Pickwick Papers takes its title from the Pickwick Club founded by Mr Samuel Pickwick, and of which Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle are members.
10) Night walks
Author
Series
Great ideas volume 88
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens describes in 'Night Walks' his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets.
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Publisher
Michael O'Mara
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This work features extracts and quotes from the works of Charles Dickens and provides a fascinating insight into the man himself. Topics covered include childhood and family, women and love, politics and wealth as well as marriage and divorce.
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Publisher
History
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In amongst the pages of Dickens' monthly supplement to Household Words, a very strange and very British history lurks. With a terrifying tale for every day of the year, Dickens' Dreadful Almanac will delight lovers of his work everywhere.
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas - it's all humbug to him. But one Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, and then by three more spirits - the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come. Will the things they show Scrooge be enough to make him change his miserly ways and learn the true meaning of Christmas?
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such...
18) Oliver
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Follow the life of a little boy called Oliver as he goes from being a workhouse orphan to a life with a group of young pickpockets. Will he ever manage to escape his life of crime?