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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in "Penguin Classics". Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at his death. Specul ...Show more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions...I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery u ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); George Cruickshank (Illustrator); Peter Preston (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collection
The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with t ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
An unforeseeable story about life If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.-Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop The adventures of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, that go on a journey with no destination. The novel focuses on the p ...Show more
The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
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The Penguin Readers Level 6 : "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
Category: Education | Series: Pearson English Graded Readers Ser.
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin's gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends but can they protect him from people who rob and mur ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens's first published work, "The Pickwick Papers" was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its colourful characters and farcical plot. This "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens's is edited with notes and an introduction by Mark Wormald. Few first novels have ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; R. W. Buss (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); David Ellis (Intro and Notes by); R. Seymour (Illustrator); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collection
Dickens takes up on an exploration of the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. Includes unique ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
The Pickwick Club was founded by the most learned minds in London for the purpose of making a scientific tour of the world. Its distinguished members include Mr. Samuel Pickwick, Esg., G.C.M.PC., "presiding"; Augustus Snodgrass; Nathaniel Winkle; and Tracy Tupman, Esq. Yet no sooner have these gentlemen ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Charles Dickens; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
In The Pickwick Papers.[6] The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, he suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" (Mr N ...Show more