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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 ...

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

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

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstr...

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 FDR is in the White House, the New Deal is in full swing, and Prohibition has finally been repealed.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. 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...

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...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan Wittig AlbertIt's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas pu...

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: ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Read one of the greatest classics of all time.The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensL...

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

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

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. 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...

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