What the Dickens?!

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...

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

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

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 definitive edition.Large Print EditionFeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensBleak House tells us of the ...

Reducere. The definitive edition.Large Print EditionFeatures an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensBleak House tells us of the ...

Reducere. The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Charles DickensRemastered for easy readingBleak House tells us...

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 ...

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: ...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Fiction. California Interest. Part coming-of-age story and part novel of erotic discovery, part a queer take on Southern Gothic and part a detectio...

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

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. 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...

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. 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. 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...