What the Dickens?!

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly and mean-spirited old man. He treats family, coworkers, and strangers alike with distaste. But on Christmas Eve he re...

Christmas?! What a load of Humbug. Mistletoe and Wine just don't do it for Scrooge; he's a workaholic miser with an attitude problem. If he doesn't...

Reducere. An illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Pip's just your average boy. H...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the mysterious Druids and noble King Alfred to the notorious Henry VIII and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Charles Dickens traced...

`Why bless you, Little Nell! What if I had lost you?'

Reducere. The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering systemGetting the facts beh...

Reducere. Editie in limba engleza Victorian Aesthetics of Erasure in Fiction and Illustration by Ileana Marin is the first major study dedicated entirely to ...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a time - of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve... Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge are busy preparing for their ...

Freelance photographer and Yeast of Eden bakery assistant Ivy Culpepper has just scored the job of a lifetime shooting the Dickensian dress-up X-ma...

Louisa is the practical daughter of a powerful industrialist. Sissy is the imaginative daughter of a clown. What will happen when two such differen...

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everyth...

Reducere. The Girl Who Saved Christmas is the 2nd book in the Christmas Series. What does it take to believe in magic? It is Christmas Eve and all is not wel...

The Victorian age was an era that witnessed enormous changes around Britain and affected vast swathes of the globe. This book looks at the minutiae...

Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack abou...

'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 ...

This is a remix of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with a Valentine's twist. When Ben's girlfriend, Marly, dies, he feels his life is over and t...

This history title from Ladybird is the ideal homework help book for primary school children who are learning about the Victorians at school. Packe...

DescriptionThe shortest of Charles Dickens's novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketow...

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

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. The Storms Of Life can prove to be seemingly unbearable. So often, our major shortcoming is simply to doubt that we could go through life experienc...

A Christmas Carol like you have never read it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 7-18+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone wh...

Description'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you, ' retorted Ja...

This special collector's edition available exclusively through Queensbridge Publishing contains both the original text and illustrations of the fir...

What the Dickens? A new puppy has arrived, bringing unintentional mischief and mayhem to the household. This little rascal hasn't learned his manne...

This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to...

'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage... What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd... A "jou...

The powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, now with a new introduction With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him prai...

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,...

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...

DescriptionSpread joy through photographs of life's happiest moments Smiles are contagious: Joy This universal human emotion soothes the soul and l...

A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving aro...

Follow the adventures of intrepid guinea pigs, Sydney and Charles, as they are thrust into the big, scary world. Sydney is the braver one who sacri...

Being different is not easy, which is something Zig, the only pig on the farm with spots, sadly learns. When he makes friends with other animals wh...

Maybe Jesus was joking, the disciples didn't know what they were doing and the New Testament is a lot funnier than you might think.You would think...

DescriptionAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not ...

Reducere. Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flea Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. F...

DescriptionGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1857. These st...

Throughout the 19th century fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyon...

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...

'Roald Dahl by way of Charles Dickens' - Vox.com The Iremongers have taken up what was not wanted and wanted it.Clod is an Iremonger. At the centre...

How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as c...

Reducere. Drinking with Dickens is a light-hearted sketch by Cedric Dickens, the great-grandson of Charles Dickens. There are vivid and memorable drinking sc...

Reducere. The Elements of Rhetoric offers a concise, comprehensive course in the rules for making your point stick. With copious examples from such masters o...

Reducere. The New York Times Book Review said James Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. It wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylis...

Reducere. On the eve of Victorian England, Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of a spinster wearing a wedding gown . . . London, June 183...

Reducere. The new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and cultur...

Reducere. As a remedy to sleeplessness, Charles Dickens used to take to wandering the streets of London at night for long stretches of time. On those walks, ...

Description'Facts alone are wanted in life, ' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, a...

Reducere. Danger around every corner. Intrigues in everyone's past. And a romance that's swoon worthy. She Walks in Majesty is all that and more, with a plot...

Reducere. In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all to...

Reducere. The loop of an -l, - the chewed-on pen, letters tiny or expansive: what we've lost in the error of typing and textingWhen Philip Hensher realized t...

Reducere. From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and wr...

Reducere. A "delightful reader's companion" (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, an...

Reducere. When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night...

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

Reducere. As Lauren Winner says ``Maybe it s not right to think of feasting during the somewhat penitential season of Advent, but that is what this book is: ...

Reducere. Oscar-nominated actress and star of the new musical drama Rise, Rosie Perez's never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how...

November, 1853. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are summoned to examine a body found in an attic studio, surrounded by a lacerated painting titl...

The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised a...

Reducere. DescriptionA pocket-sized edition of the best-selling Great Pubs of London, this book celebrates London's most significant and historic pubs. For c...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is 1934. FDR is in the White House, the New Deal is in full swing, and Prohibition has finally been repealed. Bestselling author Susa...

Reducere. Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flee Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. F...

Reducere. It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred and Earlynne, members of the...

Reducere. What happens when a baby is abandoned in the richest country in the world? Five college students are about to find out.With a theme from Dickens, a...

Reducere. "Books, let's face it, are better than anything else." Nick Hornby Turn the pages of The Literature Book to discover over 100 of the world's most e...

Reducere. DescriptionRudy Hawkins the reporter from the Essex Forum News is on his way back to visit with Uncle Yah Yah. Little does he know that his whole l...

DescriptionWith his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the...

DescriptionA high school outcast spends his life hoping to be abducted by aliens in this funny, quirky novel about finding your footing in a world ...