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The Pickwick Papers (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens. 'The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master's orders'. Few first novels have created as much pop ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens? first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and ful ...Show more
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature. After the premature death of the original illustrator, Dickens took c ...Show more
The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. D ...Show more
The Tale of Two Cities by DICKENS CHARLES
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
... "You speak collectedly, and you--are collected. That's good!" (Though his manner was less satisfied than his words.) "A matter of business. Regard it as a matter of business--business that must be done. Now if this doctor's wife, though a lady of great courage and spirit, had suffered so intensely f ...Show more
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the Uncommercial', Dickens wanders the city streets and brings L ...Show more
The Works of Charles Dickens: Volume 1: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Fiction
Few writers have better captured the times they were writing in as well as Charles Dickens. Dickens' ability to observe and record human character and environment have placed him at the top table of English fiction writers alongside Shakespeare and Austen, and his titles are still as popular today as th ...Show more
The selected illustrated works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Books, Ghost Stories and Other Tales by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Library Collection
The words 'Merry Christmas' first appeared in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which has become probably the best-loved of all Christmas stories, and it appears here with the four other stories that combined to make The Christmas Books, first published in 1852. Somehow, Christmas and ghost stories go ...Show more
Timeless Tales for Kids (Audio CD; unabridged; 10 CDs) by Lewis Carroll; Elizabeth McGovern (Read by); Dominic Cooper (Read by); Jenna-Louise Coleman (Read by); Rudyard Kipling; Charles Dickens; E. Nesbit; Bill Nighy (Read by); Russell Tovey (Read by); Alistair McGowan (Read by); Olivia Colman (Read by); Luke Evans (Read by)
Category: Audio
Olivia Colman reads E. Nesbit's classic novel The Railway Children, a masterpiece in children's fiction wonderfully evoking a bygone age, packed with fun, excitement and adventure.Bill Nighy reads a much-loved children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which continues to delight young and old with ...Show more
Timeless Tales for Kids- MP3 by Lewis Carroll; Elizabeth McGovern (Read by); Dominic Cooper (Read by); Jenna-Louise Coleman (Read by); Rudyard Kipling; Charles Dickens; E. Nesbit; Bill Nighy (Read by); Russell Tovey (Read by); Alistair McGowan (Read by); Olivia Colman (Read by); Luke Evans (Read by)
Category: Audio
Olivia Colman reads E. Nesbit's classic novel The Railway Children, a masterpiece in children's fiction wonderfully evoking a bygone age, packed with fun, excitement and adventure.Bill Nighy reads a much-loved children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which continues to delight young and old with ...Show more
Tiny Tim's Christmas Carol by Ken Ludwig; Jack Ludwig; Charles Dickens
Category: Classics
Tiny Tim hatches a plan to get his father home for Christmas day. With the help of some kindly sellers at the market and his friend Charlotte, Tiny Tim stages a spectacle filled with ghosts and Christmas cheer to convince Scrooge to give his father the day off. It all seems to be going according to plan ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more