Charles Dickens
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English
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Charles Dickens was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serial form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and...
5) Hard times
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English
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Retells the story of an industrial city in Northern England and the bleak existence of its inhabitants in the mid-1800s.
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English
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Dive into the dark and pulsating streets of Victorian England with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece, "Oliver Twist." Follow the captivating destiny of Oliver Twist, a brave young orphan, as he confronts the injustice, poverty, and cruelty of the world around him.
Oliver, mistreated in an orphanage, escapes to London where he becomes entangled with a gang of thieves led by the infamous Fagin. But Oliver is different. His innocence and purity...
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Español
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Grandes esperanzas cuenta la historia de Philip Pip, un niño huérfano que vive con su hermana huraña que lo maltrata, y el esposo de esta, un herrero de nombre Joe Gargery. En una vida sin esperanzas como aprendiz de herrero, Pip sueña con que su destino cambie.
Un día es llevado a la casa Satis, la mansión de Miss Havisham, una adinerada loca y misteriosa que lo contrata para que juegue con su nieta, la bella Estella. Lo que Pip no sabe es...
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Pavilion Children's
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
149 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 28 cm.
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English
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A beautiful edition of the timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the story that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humor and love for his fellow man. The author's colorful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition...
14) Marley: a novel
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful re-imagining of Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol, in this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
They met in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys. With Jacob Marley's genius for deception and Ebenezer Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they build a shipping empire of dubious legality and pitiless...
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Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1995.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
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English
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A simplified retelling of how the miserly Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
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136 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Graphic novel adaptation of the Dickens classic in which young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in an epic novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.
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Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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To save a boy she barely knows, teenage orphan Olivia Twist joins The Esthers, a rag-tag girl gang of thieves running free in a dangerous future. Olivia's life in this London of internment camps and strange technology gets even more complicated when she discovers that she has more power and wealth than she's ever dreamed of. But it comes with a great cost.