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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Longman.

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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted...

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David Copperfield: Personal History of David...

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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This is the novel Dickens regarded as his favourite child and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his...

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Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Focuses on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly...

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The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the...

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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"The Pickwick Papers" began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. Following the success of "Sketches by Boz",...

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Hard Times (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Longman.

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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...

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Barnaby Rudge (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, this is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy,...

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Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery, this novel is peopled with some of memorable characters (the...

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Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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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...

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Great Expectations (New Longman Literature 14-18)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Longman.

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An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of...

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Great Expectations (Penguin Red Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Pip doesn't expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. An anonymous...

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Oliver Twist (Penguin Red Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark...

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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Red Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men,...

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Hard Times (Penguin Red Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, Mr Thomas Gradgrind bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his daughter Louisa marries the loveless...

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Little Dorrit (Read Red)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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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...

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A Christmas Carol (Penguin Red Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner...

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The Old Curiosity Shop: a Tale: A Tale (Penguin...

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Blending realism with non-realistic genres such as fairy-tale, allegory, and pastoral, this title presents the tale of Nell's tragedy that contains some of the author's most...

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Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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Through Paul Dombey's - a businessman - dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, this title presents a picture of the...

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings...

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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After reading "Christmas Carol", the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner...

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Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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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...

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Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)

Author:Charles Dickens. Editor:Penguin Classics.

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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...

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