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Hard Times (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Hard Times (1854) - The novel takes place in a dreary English industrial town where there are many stories to reveal. Among the townfolk are a child abandoned by her circus-performing father, a teacher who believes children should only learn facts even if that means they cannot cope in society, and a ba ...Show more
Hard Times (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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 from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
Hard Times (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and resentments run deep. The effects of Gradgrind's t ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the pr ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dickens's Little Dorritis edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall in Penguin Classics.When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he take ...Show more
London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzle wit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune i ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics
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 character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectiv ...Show more
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collaboration between some of the leading writers of the day, and contains four unforgettable contributions by Dickens himself, including 'The Signalman' - a chill ...Show more
Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's themes ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family with the characters the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
Nicholas Nickleby by CHARLES DICKENS
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
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 characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mr ...Show more