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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield is a quintessential Victorian bildungsroman that chronicles the life of its eponymous hero from impoverished childhood to mature contentment.
Charles Dickens expertly weaves themes of personal growth, the…
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Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life. Pip is troubled by his visits to strange old…
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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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Dickens's fourth novel, initially serialized in his magazine Master Humprey's Clock between 1840 and 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop proved to be a huge hit on publication and is still…
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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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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Unleash Creativity with the Coloring Book Edition of A Child's History of England!
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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to introduce your child to…
Unleash Your Creativity this Holiday Season with Our Christmas Carol Coloring Book!
The holiday season is here, and what better way to celebrate than by diving into…
‘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?
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…
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…
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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…
Enjoy A Christmas Carol and six bonus Christmas stories by Charles Dickens.
Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket 2 Bonus Stories!
On a cold Christmas Eve in Victorian London, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner…
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.
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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Introduce your child to the life of Charles Dickens, the great author of classic literature including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and many more.
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Part of the new Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, this is the first fully critical edition of Dickens' late journalistic masterpiece, The Uncommercial Traveller. The edition includes textual and explanatory…
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…
Dickens satirizes both the society and government of the Victorian era, particularly the lack of social safety net.
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…
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.
Jay R Swanson
Ebeneezer Scrooge hated Christmas because he loved Jacob Marley.
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This 1000-piece puzzle reimagines Dickens' life and scenes from his novels in glorious detail
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…
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This collection of Christmas tales includes Dickens’ classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’. Short stories and poems by various authors are also featured.
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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…
Herman Charles Merivale
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue…
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Charles Dickens, John Leech
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The greed of Patricia Ingham’s family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world…
Illustrated edition containing hand-drawn illustrations, a detailed summary, author biography, and a complete characters list
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless holiday classic that tells the story…
Introduction by Neil Gaiman This stunning Oxford Children's Classic edition is the perfect introduction to A Christmas Carol--the ultimate ghostly Christmas tale. Features bonus material including insights for readers, facts…
Tells a story spanning all levels of Victorian society. This book centre’s on an inheritance - Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned…
Offers a compelling depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, it explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole…
Charles Dickens’ first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its colourful characters and farcical plot. Featuring the original illustrations, this title…
Tells the story of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas. This title also includes: The Story of…
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Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the…
Tells the story of an orphan named Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves.
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England.
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder…
A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from…
