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Charles Dickens
In Charles Dickens' timeless classic, A Tale of Two Cities, the tumultuous backdrop of the French Revolution sets the stage for a gripping narrative of love, sacrifice, and redemption. Amidst…
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Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist follows the journey of an orphan boy through the gritty streets of Victorian London. From the workhouse to the
criminal underworld, Oliver encounters hardship, friendship and…
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Pip’s life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder…
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Features A Christmas Carol that had a significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.
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Features some of the most memorably drawn villains - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London…
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Shows how a young man’s life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a…
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and…
Recounts author’s experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. This book draws openly and revealingly on author’s own life.
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Dickens satirizes both the society and government of the Victorian era, particularly the lack of social safety net.
Only this Classics Made Easy edition includes a comprehensive 200-word glossary! Understand this Christmas Classic like never before.
Enjoy A Christmas Carol and six bonus Christmas stories by Charles Dickens.
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a richly woven tale of greed, love, and social ambition in Victorian London. Centered around a mysterious inheritance, the novel explores the lives…
Celebrate the season with Charles Dickens's The Chimes, a moving and magical tale that brings the spirit of Christmas alive in a whole new way. In this lesser-known holiday classic…
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens is a timeless tale that transcends the boundaries of time and resonates with the eternal spirit of human redemption.
‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’ Could any writer portray London better than Charles Dickens?
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Features three ghostly tales from a master of the form, ‘The Signalman’, ‘The Trial for Murder’ and the title story, ‘To Be Read at Dusk’.
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A classic story filtered through a boldly theatrical imagination.
Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition…
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A gripping tale of crime, guilt, revenge, reward, love, and loss follows a young orphan named Pip from a hardscrabble rural life to the teeming streets of nineteenth-century London in…
One of the key launch titles for Faber Children’s stylish Liberty Classics range, A Christmas Carol is probably the most popular and famous Christmas novels of all time.
Enjoy Charles Dickens' beloved masterpiece, freshly imagined within an enchanting woodland realm.
In 1843, Charles Dickens penned a story--a classic Christmas tale full of ghosts and the endearing humbug Ebenezer…
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A love story, a mystery, and a sharp critique of upper-class English society, Great Expectations remains one of Dickens's best-regarded works.
Part of a new series of beloved children's classics featuring unique covers of famous artwork. Enjoy the greatest Christmas story ever written in this handsome new gift volume.
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A sumptuous, collectable edition of the beloved classic A Christmas Carol, which folds into a stunning 3D paper sculpture as you read.
A Christmas Carol has become a phenomenal touchstone of English festive fiction and an enduring favourite internationally. Repeatedly adapted, parodied, stages and filmed, this richly influential novella is powerfully vivid…
Dickens’ celebrated novel of innocence betrayed and then triumphant. It recreates the London underworld populated by such characters as Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and the Artful Dodger, who are contrasted…
An abridged edition of the children’s classic, with 50 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen.
CHARLES DICKENS'S LAST GREAT GHOST STORY is also his most personal, inspired by a terrible accident on a train he himself was riding on. He revisited this haunting memory on…
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This 1000-piece puzzle reimagines Dickens' life and scenes from his novels in glorious detail
Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday. This edition features the original interior artwork by John Leech…
Thomas Gradgrind's rigid belief in facts over imagination falters as cold logic clashes with life's realities, while worker Stephen Blackpool fights against a heartless, unforgiving society.
In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, orphaned Pip navigates through the complexities of Victorian society, propelled by his dreams of wealth and
status. With memorable characters, intricate plot twists, and themes…
Andrew B Harris
Charles Dickens was 31 and the author of six major works when he became outraged by the working conditions of children. With the hope that he could move more readers…
Charles Dickens,Various
This collection of Christmas tales includes Dickens’ classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’. Short stories and poems by various authors are also featured.
Charles Dickens and J Walker McS
Stories from Dickens, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
A collection of all Dickens’ ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.
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Robert Langton
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Charles Dickens, John Leech
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
