During the French revolution, a young Englishman gives up his life to save the husband of the woman he loves...
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'I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD, ' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all...
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you, ' retorted Jasper, 'because...
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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...
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'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret... ' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband...
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With its memorable cast of characters such as Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol is the most...
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"Oliver Twist barely survives childhood in the workhouse. When he runs away to London, he is taken in by a gang of thieves. Wealthy Mr. Brownlow rescues him, but the thieves snatch...
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With a hungry, timid request of 'Please, sir. I want some more', orphan Oliver Twist takes his first step on a terrifying journey...
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'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and...
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"Dom-bey and Son"... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey...
One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" is edited with an introduction by Mark Ford. When Nicholas...
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A great addition to Alma Classics collection. This edi. on contains extensive notes on the text together with extra material on the author's life and works...
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Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickenss most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs...
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David Copperfield is the story of a young man s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among...
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Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collaboration between some of the leading...
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'What dark history is this?' This is the question that hangs over Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of...
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'It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me' A terrifying encounter with an escaped...
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Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld...
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles...
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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...
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In "Hard Times", Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian...
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'Bah, 'said Scrooge, 'Humbug. ' But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him...
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'... holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng...
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Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts...
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