2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. This title includes eight of his well-loved novels.[...]
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.' Set in[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens. "Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted w[...]
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. '"I may grow rich!" repeated Nicholas, with a mournful smile, "ay, and I may grow old. But rich or poor, or old or young, we shall ever be the same to each other, and in that our comfort lies"'. The work of a yo[...]
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative "Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism" series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major lit[...]
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 a[...]
Perfect for pupils aged 11+, this play edition of Dicken's classic tale uses John Mortimer's much-loved dramatisation first produced by the RSC in 1994. It features an extensive section of classroom activities created by leading national experts in using Drama within English, Paul Bunyan and Ruth M[...]
Classic / British English
Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesnât like people. He really doesnât like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he chang[...]
This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the[...]
Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes beg[...]
Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol", "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities".[...]
Charles Dickens is one of the most popular novelists of all time. In fact, his many novels and short stories have never gone out of print -- a feat few other writers have accomplished. Known for creating some of literature's most beloved characters, including old Ebenezer Scrooge and young Oliver Tw[...]
This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story-telling. Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens' reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, t[...]
Contains A Christmas Carol with the other stories that made up Christmas Books, plus Dickens' finest supernatural tales and other works, all with the original illustrations.[...]
Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection gathers them together in one volume, providing an invaluable insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his ste[...]
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Study Edition
Den föräldralöse Oliver Twist, född på ett fattighus, är gatubarn i London. Där hamnar han i klorna på den ökände skurken Fagin, som lär upp pojkarna till skickliga ficktjuvar. Fagins gäng gör gatorna osäkra och de råkar ut för många äventyr. Men den kriminella banan är inget för[...]
It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion [...]