Who Was Charles Dickens?

Reducere. As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and settin...

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women vividly portrays the lot of the poor in mid-nineteenth century London and some of the people who were...

Reducere. Do you want to read Hard Times? If so then keep reading... Hard Times Charles Dickens Hard Times - For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) i...

Nineteenth century private investigators American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor investigate the murder of Charles Dickens. June, 187...

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick...

Reducere. Charles Dickens' s second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself su...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles DickensThis fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set again...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...

Reducere. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first publishe...

A collection of stories of matchless charm and enduring popularity that enchanted listeners at Charles Dickens's public readings Since it was first...

DescriptionDickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...Lucie Manette has been se...

DescriptionThis timeless tale of an arrogant miser's transformation into a paragon of warmhearted generosity, recounted by one of the English langu...

DescriptionUnjustly neglected but amply rewarding, this historical drama recaptures the turmoil of the Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby Rudge combines...

Reducere. Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit" tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family...

Reducere. "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" was Charles Dickens's third novel, published as a serial between 1838 and 1839. The story revolves a...

The true story of the Victorian arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor who was subject to a hate campaign led by Lady Jane Franklin and C...

"A Christmas Carol" is a 1843 novella by Charles Dickens. It tells the tale of an elderly miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is transformed into a ki...

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

Reducere. Charles Dickens's last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend" is the story of "Noddy" Boffin, a common clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman" after h...

Reducere. Charles Dickens's last completed novel, "Our Mutual Friend" is the story of "Noddy" Boffin, a common clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman" after h...

Reducere. One of the great novelist's most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens's genius. This tale of the orphan who is re...

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...

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

Reducere. Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, miserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as "humbug". One Christmas Eve, however, he is visited by a s...

Reducere. What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What...

Reducere. What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What...

Reducere. Charles Dickens' timeless classic, A Christmas Carol, is a beloved tale, which has captivated generations of readers for over 150 years. It is the ...

Reducere. Originally published along with short stories in his weekly serial "Master Humphrey's Clock" from 1840 to 1841, "The Old Curiosity Shop" tells the ...

Reducere. Amy Dorrit's father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison and has lived there with her family for all of her ...

Reducere. A new and beautiful edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens first published in 1843 with John Leech's illustrations. Tole Publishing is ple...

Reducere. Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-9. The story is of the...

'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 ...

DescriptionIntroducing private investigator Charley Field, the true-life inspiration behind Charles Dickens' Inspector Bucket, in an intriguing new...

Introducing private investigator Charley Field, the true-life inspiration behind Charles Dickens' Inspector Bucket, in an intriguing new Victorian ...

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...

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...

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

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...

DescriptionWhen Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen t...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter. Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The...

When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas book...

Reducere. Some people live that touch only a few, while others have an impact that reverberates throughout the world for decades and even centuries.Those Who...

Tess Durbeyfield is the oldest child of John and Joan, uneducated peasants living in an impoverished rural village in Wessex, during the Long Depre...

Reducere. Uriah Heep and I had a lot in common. We were both Solicitor's clerks in London. Indeed, I became a Solicitor and had rooms in Lincoln's Inn, not f...

"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....

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

Contributor(s): Author: Charles DickensThe tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Ma...

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. All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy...

Along with the plays of William Shakespeare and the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen's novels are among the most beloved books of Western lite...

Reducere. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cli...

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...

Reducere. In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their ...

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

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

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 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...