Charles Dickens
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Reaching deep within himself, Dickens created this novel of moral exploration, high comedy, and page-turning narrative power. Pip, an orphan raised by his bullying sister and her sweet-natured blacksmith husband, discovers one day that he has a mysterious benefactor. The good-hearted Pip suddenly has "great expectations" of his life and begins to reject spiritual values for materialistic ones.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise. It follows the travels of Mr Pickwick and the Pickwick Club through the English countryside, and is made up of Dickens' usual array of exaggerated, comic characters. The various adventures and encounters are loosely related, suiting the serial format in which the novel was first published.
...Author
Publisher
Mission Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories...A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one wonderful audio collection are six short stories about Christmas—A Christmas Tree, What Christmas is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story and Nobody's Story.
Author
Series
Wishbone volume 9
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wishbone imagines himself to be a wealthy Frenchman who must flee his homeland when war breaks out during the French Revolution.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open...
72) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
75) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the classic "Oliver Twist," the tale of a poor London orphan hoping for a better life, narrated by Wishbone the television dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of characters.
76) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.