
Includes introduction and notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter and Illustrations by George Cruickshank. Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers . With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was...
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание с трехсторонним окрашенным обрезом. Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn`t change his ways he...
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. Oliver Twist is one of Dickens`s most popular novels, with many famous film, television and musical adaptations....
"Our Mutual Friend", Dickens` last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central...
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been...
Англ.яз. “CHILD AS HE WAS, HE WAS DESPERATE WITH HUNGER, AND RECKLESS WITH MISERY. HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE, AND ADVANCING TO THE MASTER, BASIN AND SPOON IN HAND, SAID, SOMEWHAT ALARMED AT HIS OWN TEMERITY: ‘PLEASE,...
Considered by many to be Dickens` finest novel, "Great Expectations" traces the growth of the book`s narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its...
"The Pickwick Papers" is Dickens first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with...
Dickens` classic rags-to-riches tale of Pip, an orphan who inherits a mysterious fortune and all of the troubles that go with it. The dynamic teen-oriented cover makes this the book to have in stock.
The classic tale by Charles Dickens of tight-fisted, cold-hearted Scrooge who undergoes a transformation at Christmas.
Abandoned at an early age, Oliver is forced to live in a dark and dismal workhouse lorded over by Mr Bumble who cheats the boys of their meagre rations. Desperate but determined, Oliver escapes. But what he discovers...
`A Tale of Two Cities` (1859), Dickens` greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail...
Dickens had already achieved renown with `The Pickwick Papers`. With `Oliver Twis`t his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation,...
"The "Old Curiosity Shop" (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the...
Following the success of `Pickwick Papers` and `Oliver Twist`, `Nicholas Nickleby` was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a `literary gentleman`. It has a full supporting cast of delectable...
Dickens`s final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the `Sensation Novel` as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and...
Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens` comic masterpiece about which his biographer. Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author`s development as he began to delve deeper into the `springs of...
`Little Dorrit` is a classic Dickensian tale of imprisonment - both literal and symbolic - while Dickens` working title for the novel, `Nobody`s Fault`, emphasises its theme of personal responsibility in all areas of...
Dickens wrote of `David Copperfield`: `Of all my books I like this the best`. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author`s own enthusiasm for this greatly loved...
Dickens`s first historical novel is set against the infamous `No Popery` riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and...
