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The children of Dickens The children of Dickens Samuel McChord Crothers Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on th… OL104642W
Pictures from Italy Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps… OL14869503W
Selected Stories Selected Stories Lucy English A study guide for Charles Dickens: Selected Stories (A Christmas Carol, The Signalman, The Poor Relation's Story) OL14869536W
The Heart of Charles Dickens The Heart of Charles Dickens Edgar Johnson,Charles Dickens As Revealed in His Letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts OL14870055W
SparkNotes Hard Times SparkNotes Hard Times SparkNotes Study guide to *Hard Times* by Charles Dickens OL14926884W
Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Nikki Hessell "Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki … OL16014490W
Charles Dickens and the street children of London Charles Dickens and the street children of London Andrea Warren Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor,… OL16450694W
Charles Dickens at Home Charles Dickens at Home Hilary Macaskill This book tracks the places Dickens lived, from his Portsmouth birthplace and childhood home in Chatham to his last home back in Kent, at Gad's Hill Place in Rochester. The book also covers his trave… OL16574302W
Dickens's style Dickens's style Tyler, Daniel. Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addr… OL16813941W
Charles Dickens Favorite Daughter The Life Loves And Art Of Katey Dickens Perugini Charles Dickens Favorite Daughter The Life Loves And Art Of Katey Dickens Perugini Lucinda Hawksley xvii, 405 pages ; 24 cm OL17577184W
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Nicholas Tredell David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and absorbing tale of his education by life, presents a rich range of … OL17751234W
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Simon Callow An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the li… OL17906443W
Charles Dickens in love Charles Dickens in love Robert Reginald Garnett An intimate and engaging portrait of the great author and the women he loved: Ellen Ternan, Maria Beadnell, and Mary Scott Hogarth. OL19959112W
Invisible Woman Invisible Woman Claire Tomalin A portrait of nineteenth-century actress Ellen Ternan, the woman who was the mistress of Charles Dickens, describing her secret relationship with the author. OL21041106W
Dickens Dickens Jane Smiley From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he c… OL21178979W
Little Dickens Little Dickens Tom Hegg Tom Hegg, author of the modern holiday classic, A Cup of Christmas Tea, takes several immortal Dickens characters from different novels, mixes them together with newly minted ones, puts them all in … OL22634520W
Dickens's Great expectations Dickens's Great expectations Jerome Meckier "In this new book, Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier examines Great Expectations as an anti-Cinderella story in which Dickens rewrote half a dozen Victorian novels that rely on Cinderella motifs.". "Me… OL4783525W
Dickens, melodrama, and the parodic imagination Dickens, melodrama, and the parodic imagination Tore Rem "Dr. Rem examines the Inimitable's comic method in several of his more popular novels, focusing on Dickens's double generic use of the melodramatist's emotional excesses and the parodist's detached a… OL5957439W
The life of Charles Dickens The life of Charles Dickens John Forster Writing with passion about the pleasures and pitfalls that he experienced and dreamt up in Victorian England, Charles Dickens remains one of the most beloved novelists of all time. Apart from the Bib… OL75129W
American notes American notes Charles Dickens Description of a trip by the famous British novelist Charles Dickens to the U.S. in the early 1840s, which included travel through the Great Lakes states. The first and last portions of the book are … OL8300173W
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