The Story of Charles Dickens

A few years ago, just before Christmas, I started to read "A Christmas Carol" to our young daughter. "I'm bored, " she cried, after five minutes, s...

Reducere. Commonly hailed as his masterpiece and his own personal favourite, Dickens's novel "David Copperfield" was first published as a serial in 1849-50 a...

Commonly hailed as his masterpiece and his own personal favourite, Dickens's novel "David Copperfield" was first published as a serial in 1849-50 a...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental...

The story of orphaned Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves and plunged into a dark criminal underworld ...

"Great Expectations" is one of Dickens's best-loved novels - and, say some critics, his greatest. Covering the story of one man's life - with many ...

Reducere. In this unflaggingly suspenseful story of aspirations and moral redemption, humble, orphaned Pip, a ward of his short-tempered older sister and her...

Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Their story, w...

Reducere. Introduce your children to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with beautiful illustrations and abridged text. Seek and find characters from the po...

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where ...

DescriptionPatrick Barlow, writer of the Broadway and West End hit The 39 Steps, has retold Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. Th...

For a century and a half Preston was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, with mills and terraced houses for the workers. Charles Dickens used Pr...

Reducere. When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he ...

'One of Dickens' most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is a vivid portrait of London's descent ...

Reducere. 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 sha...

Reducere. Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled b...

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic stor...

Reducere. Winner of the Director's Choice AwardIn an interpretive retelling of the birth and crucifixion of Christ, A Miser. A Manger. A Miracle. weaves Bibl...

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is one of...

Reducere. Description"Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lob...

Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully re...

Oliver Twist is an adapted Intermediate level reader written by Charles Dickens. This is a classic story and one of Dickens's most famous novels ab...

This is a retelling of the classic Charles Dickens' story for children growing in their reading confidence and ability. It is part of the Usborne R...

The journalist's real name is Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers soon becomes a phenomenal, unprecedented sensation, read and discussed by the en...

In this day and age, and in some circles, Christmas doesn't live in the minds and hearts of people the way it used to. That's a shame, because Chri...

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 ...

Scrooge was not a kind man. One Christmas Eve he was visited by three ghosts, who took him on a journey from the past, through the present and in t...

Reducere. It was the time of the French Revolution -- a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, ...

Reducere. "Facts alone are wanted in life." The children at Mr. Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to...

DescriptionClassic / British English This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men -- one French, one English, b...

"A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" is more commonly known as A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens in 1843....

'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry ChristmasWhat good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who ...

Reducere. Improve your English and have fun at the same time with Read Stories - Learn English."I'm sure you are very lonely in this place, " I said. As I ta...

With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensi...

Reducere. Do you want to read Oliver Twist? If so then keep reading...The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first...

Christmas at Canterville Lisa Wellman and Simon Canterville are surprised to find a dead man on their roof in the midst of rushing to open the Cant...

Reducere. "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" by Charles Dickens is more commonly known as "A Christmas Carol". This large print ...

Val rie is a Starlady. Her mission is to speak of the sacred Aborigine Alcheringa Stone, the seven sisters of the Pleiades, the early evolution of ...

Reducere. One of Charles Dickens's most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and...

Description'Bah, humbug Fools wishing me a Merry Christmas should be forced to sit on cushions stuffed with holly leaves or boiled with their own C...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles DickensIllustrator: Arthur RackhamIntroduction by: Hall CaineFirst published in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" is arguab...

Reducere. This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced student...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'Set befor...

Barnaby Rudge is a story of a forbidden love in the time of great London riots in 1780. Both Edward's father, John Chester, and Emma's uncle, the C...

Reducere. In these two plays, Drew Hayden Taylor delves into the past and speculates about the future as he examines the dilemmas facing young Native Canadia...

Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of the farmer Bathsheba Everdene, her life and relationships - especially with her lonely neighbor Willi...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most...

Reducere. Central to the plot is John Jasper: in public he is a man of integrity and benevolence; in private he is an opium addict. And while seeming to smil...

Reducere. A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Writings: A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as we Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story,...

Reducere. Do you want to read A Tale of Two Cities? If so then keep reading... Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a fam...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Based on a Book by: Charles DickensEditor: John PasdenAdapted by: Renjun YangGreat Expectations is hailed as Charles Dickens' maste...

DescriptionWhile draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson's workers discover a fema...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Based on a Book by: Charles DickensEditor: John PasdenAdapted by: Renjun YangGreat Expectations is hailed as Charles Dickens' maste...

Reducere. With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dick...

Reducere. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer duri...

DescriptionCalling all dog-lovers: On Dogs collects essays about man's best friend by Charles Dickens, Vita Sackville-West, Brigitte Bardot, and Sh...

Reducere. A Valancourt Yuletide tradition returns, this time with rare 19th-century tales from U.S. newspapers and magazinesThe Christmas ghost story traditi...

DescriptionFather Francis J. Finn, (born St. Louis, Missouri, 1859, died Cincinnati, OH, November 2, 1928). was an American Jesuit priest who wrote...

Reducere. The String of Pearls: A Romance is the title of a story first published as a penny part serial 1846-47. The main antagonist of the story is the inf...

DescriptionWho is the mysterious solitary woman dressed in white who accosts Walter Hartright late one night near London's Hampstead Heath? Why doe...

The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows, " told in a blend of realism and fairy-tale The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell,...

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 s...

Reducere. Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous u...

This charming box set includes 3 of our classic Christmas mini books for this special slipcase editionThe Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moo...

Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declin...

Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel o...

Reducere. A crisis of conscience uproots a clergyman's family from the pastoral beauty of the south, sending them to a dreary city in the industrial north. M...

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graha...

079Readers are transported to the historical town of Shrewsbury. The Lion Hotel provides the setting for a story in which a detective's daughter is...

Pip, a young orphan living in the care of his older sister and her kind husband, is called upon in his youth under strange circumstances by the mys...