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Author: Michael Rosen Publisher: Walker ISBN: 9781406302035 Category : Novelists, English Languages : en Pages : 96
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A look at the life and work of one of our greatest novelists, including insights into his early career, his performances, the great social and political upheavals of his time, and an examination of four of his best known novels, with a particular focus on Great Expectations. An accessible follow-up to the acclaimed Shakespeare: His Work and His World.
Author: Michael Rosen Publisher: Walker ISBN: 9781406302035 Category : Novelists, English Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
A look at the life and work of one of our greatest novelists, including insights into his early career, his performances, the great social and political upheavals of his time, and an examination of four of his best known novels, with a particular focus on Great Expectations. An accessible follow-up to the acclaimed Shakespeare: His Work and His World.
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763629618 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
Author: R.A. Lafferty Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1250778689 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, and Gene Wolfe. The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of offbeat imagination, ranging from classics like “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” and “The Primary Education of the Cameroi” to his Hugo Award-winning “Eurema’s Dam.” Introduced by Neil Gaiman, the volume also contains story introductions and afterwords by, among many others, Michael Dirda, Samuel R. Delany, John Scalzi, Connie Willis, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Robson, Harlan Ellison, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, and Patton Oswalt. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Books, Incorporated ISBN: Category : Bankruptcy Languages : en Pages : 834
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As for many of Dickens' novels, highlighting social injustices is at the heart of Little Dorrit. His father was imprisoned for debt, and Dickens' shines a spotlight on the fate of many who are unable to repay a debt when the ability to seek work is denied. Amy Dorrit is the youngest daughter of a man imprisoned for debt and is working as a seamstress for Mrs Clennam when Arthur Clennam crosses her path. Will the sweet natured Amy win Arthur's heart? And will they ever escape the shadow of debtors' prison?
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: ISBN: 144740727X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era is still very popular today, here are collected the very finest of his crime and mystery stories. Some of the stories included are, 'The Drunkard's Death', 'The Automaton Police', 'The Edwin Drood Syndicate' and many more.
Author: Michael Rosen
Author: Michael Rosen
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Gregory Maguire
Author: R.A. Lafferty
Author: Andrea Warren
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Edgar Johnson