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  • HOLLY BERRIES FROM DICKENS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Originally published in Boston in 1898 as a small format gift book, complete with its own box, Holly Berries from Dickens seemed to promise a Christmas book of a sort. It isn't. At least not directly. Something quite different awaits inside. These holly berries comprise over 120 quotations from just over 20 works by Charles Dickens including his Christmas stories and the author...

    $39.70

  • THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend, the rising star of literature Wilkie Collins. Writing together, they reported their adventures for Dickens' periodical Household Words, producing a showcase of both long-cherished and entirely novel sides of these well-loved men of letters. Boasting two ghost stories from undisputed ma...

    $39.70

  • NO THOROUGHFARE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The story combines Collin's touch of mystery with Dickens’s satire which makes it quite interesting. The Overture sets a mysterious tone to the story which was to follow. There afterwards, the story takes off with a mistaken identity, vivid set of characters including a villain and an unusual heroine for Victorian time; and the writing seems to have more influenced by Dickens a...

    $39.70

  • BLEAK HOUSE ILLUSTRIERTE FASSUNG
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Bleak House ist der neunte Roman von Charles Dickens. Der Roman, der in den 1820er Jahren spielt, erschien von März 1852 bis September 1853 in 20 Fortsetzungen. Jede Folge enthielt zwei Illustrationen von Phiz und kostete einen Shilling, die beiden letzten Folgen wurden zusammen veröffentlicht und kosteten zwei Shilling. Die Rahmenhandlung bildet ein viele Jahre anhaltender Erb...

    $39.70

  • OLIVER TWIST ILLUSTRIERTE AUSGABE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des Findelkindes und Waisenjungen Oliver Twist, der im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufwächst, ohne etwas über seine Herkunft zu wissen. Durch die katastrophalen Zustände im Armenhaus gezwungen, bittet er um mehr Nahrung, worauf er eine Woche lang in den Kohlenkeller gesperrt wird. Außerdem wird ausgeschrieben, dass die Gemeinde denjeni...

    $39.70

  • CHARLES DICKENS DETEKTIVGESCHICHTEN
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Charles Dickens war fasziniert von der modernen Londoner Polizeiarbeit. Seine Erkenntnisse schrieb er in diesen Geschichten nieder. Sie spiegeln nicht nur das Verhältnis von Polizei und Verbrechertum wider, sondern zeigen auch die zugrunde liegenden Auswirkungen sozialer Konflikte. Dickens unterhält in bester Tradition eines Doyle oder Poe. ...

    $39.70

  • A CHRISTMAS TREASURY
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages. Included are Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and other delightful poetry and fiction. Beautifully illustrated, this book will become part of your family's Christmas tradition for years to...

    $19.00

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday. Come spend Christmas with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge, and all the ghosts of Christmas. Truly a timeless wonder. ...

    $9.00

  • HUNTED DOWN
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A rare detective story by one of the greatest writers in the English language A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving.   Written in the uncann...

    $85.00

  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    One of the most celebrated and influential novels of the past two centuries tells the vivid and unforgettable coming-of-age story of the orphan Pip In the marsh country of Victorian England, young Pip lives with his sister and her husband, the kindly blacksmith Joe, eking out a hardscrabble life. Pip’s one true aspiration is to apprentice for Joe and become a blacksmith himself...

    $85.00

  • A TALE OF TWO CITIES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The premier novel of the French Revolution, by England’s greatest author Set against the bloodthirsty backdrop of revolutionary France, this monumental saga—one of the most famous works in all of literature—is at its heart the story of a beautiful woman and the two men who compete for her love: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who renounces his heritage, yet stands accused o...

    $85.00

  • OLIVER TWIST. 81 (LLUVIA DE CLASICOS)
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Oliver Twist es una de las primeras novelas del prolífero escritor inglés Charles Dickens. Fue publicada por entregas entre 1836 y 1837.En ella se cuenta la vida del niño que da nombre a la obra. Son más las situaciones difíciles, aunque también las hay halagadoras, en las que Dickens coloca a Oliver en los cincuenta y tres capítulos que la componen y en los que, con inusitada ...
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    $215.00

  • CANCIÓN DE NAVIDAD
    DICKENS, CHARLES
    Dickens fue un escritor genial. Creó este ser especial, personajes memorables, oprimidos, miserables..., tan repletos de emoción que llegan al corazón. Canción de Navidad es una de sus novelas más famosas y empieza así: Scrooge es gruñón y huraño. Vive este ser tan tacaño acumulando fortuna y más que solo una. ...
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    $315.00

  • CANCIÓN DE NAVIDAD
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Ebenezer Scrooge es un hombre avaro y egoísta, sarcástico y huraño con sus pocos seres allegados. La víspera de Navidad, el fantasma de su antiguo socio Jacob Marley se le manifiesta, provocando una serie de apariciones de los fantasmas de las Navidades pasadas, presentes y futuras, que despertarán emociones en el protagonista que parecían olvidadas. Esta edición, con una nueva...
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    $178.00

  • HISTORIAS DE FANTASMAS
    DICKENS CHARLES
    Si bien como novelista Dickens apenas recurre a lo sobrenatural, salvo en formas metafóricas, en algunos cuentos entra de lleno en el terreno de ultratumba y sin reservas pone al servicio de lo fantasmal su inmenso talento literario. "El guardavía" constituye, sin duda, una de las mejores historias de fantasmas jamás escritas; "Confesión encontrada en una cárcel en tiempos de C...
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    $105.00

  • BLEAK HOUSE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A tale of family secrets and the damaging corruption of the British legal system from the author of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist.   In Bleak House, Charles Dickens not only pries apart the stultifying and ponderous conduct and contracts of British moneyed society, but also takes specific aim at an English judicial system in desperate need of modernization and reform. Fea...

    $85.00

  • THE CHARLES DICKENS COLLECTION VOLUME ONE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Three of Dickens’s most compelling orphan protagonists—Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson—in three of his greatest novels. Perhaps no writer in the English language is more closely associated with orphaned characters than Charles Dickens. The trials and dangers for children without parental protection play a significant part in nearly all his work, as both a source of high...

    $109.00

  • A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Charles Dickens’s charming history of his homeland, spanning from antiquity through the 17th century In this accessible history volume, Charles Dickens turns his talents to the saga of the United Kingdom. With characteristic wit and perspicacity, he brings the kings, soldiers, and civilians who shaped England, Scotland, and Ireland to vivid life. Beginning in 50 B.C.E. and exte...

    $85.00

  • OLIVER TWIST
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Charles Dickens’s cutting social novel of corruption, cruelty, and a brave orphan boy Brought into the world by a drunken nurse and an inept surgeon, innocent young Oliver Twist couldn’t have known the mysterious circumstances surrounding his birth—that his mother had been discovered wandering the streets, near bursting with child, and had died ignominiously on the cold bed of ...

    $85.00

  • AMERICAN NOTES
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A travelogue detailing Charles Dickens’s tour of North America In January of 1842, Charles Dickens and his wife, Kate, traveled from Liverpool to Boston. At the time, Dickens had already attained a tremendous level of literary success and fame, and the author hoped his travels would help him gain insight into the New World that had captivated the English imagination. Over the e...

    $85.00

  • OUR MUTUAL FRIEND
    CHARLES DICKENS
    “When it comes to walking the mean streets, Dickens could give modern genre authors the tour of their lives.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times   When a corpse is found in the Thames River and identified as John Harmon, many lives will be forever changed. John, who had been abroad and estranged from his miserly father for years, will no longer collect his inheritance. It will...

    $85.00

  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The story of a miser’s transformation, and the most beloved Christmas novel of all time.   An immediate bestseller in the mid-nineteenth century and praised by the Illustrated London News for its “playful and sparkling humor [and] gentle spirit of humanity,” Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has remained continuously in print for more than one hundred years, a cherished part ...

    $85.00

  • NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A young man fights to save his mother and sister—and a group of abused schoolboys—in this novel of hardship and heroism from the great Victorian writer.   Suddenly fatherless and penniless, young Nicholas Nickleby can find no help for himself and his family. His uncle Ralph may be rich, but he is neither a kind nor an honorable man—so it is up to Nicholas to take responsibility...

    $85.00

  • THE PICKWICK PAPERS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Dickens’s first novel follows the comic adventures of a band of men as they journey around nineteenth-century England. Set in the early nineteenth century, The Pickwick Papers follows well-off gentleman Samuel Pickwick, who forms a club with three friends. Their goal is to travel through the English countryside by coach, observing the world beyond London and staying at inns alo...

    $85.00

  • LITTLE DORRIT
    CHARLES DICKENS
    An epic tale of two families in Victorian England and their shifting fortunes by one of the world’s greatest novelists. For decades, William Dorrit has been confined to Marshalsea, a debtor’s prison, which he cannot leave until he pays what he owes—meanwhile preventing him from getting a job in order to do so. His daughter Amy, born in Marshalsea, is now old enough to provide s...

    $85.00

  • MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT
    CHARLES DICKENS
    After losing his inheritance, a young man strives to make his own fortune, in this witty, wide-ranging saga by the iconic nineteenth-century novelist. When young Martin Chuzzlewit falls in love with his grandfather’s devoted nursemaid, the elder Chuzzlewit is furious and decides to disinherit the boy. Thus, Martin is thrust into the world to find his own way. An apprenticeship ...

    $85.00

  • DAVID COPPERFIELD
    CHARLES DICKENS
    The inspiration for the film starring Dev Patel: A sprawling masterpiece about a boy making his way to manhood in nineteenth-century England.   David Copperfield’s father died before he was born, but he grew up loved and comfortable—until he turned seven and his mother married Edward Murdstone. His new stepfather could not banish little Davy fast enough, sending him to live wit...

    $85.00

  • A BUGGY CHRISTMAS CAROL
    CHARLES DICKENS
    A Christmas Carol, just for kids!  Enjoy this adaptation of Dickens’s classic written in 1843, made for children and their parents to enjoy together during the holiday season. The cast of characters is played by whimsical bugs and friendly animals who bring humor and charm to their roles.   In this version of A Christmas Carol, Sam the Stinkbug delightfully takes on the famous ...

    $49.00

  • THE CHARLES DICKENS COLLECTION VOLUME THREE
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Three of the brilliant novelist’s best-known classics in one volume, offering a wide-ranging portrait of nineteenth-century British society. A perfect introduction to the world of Charles Dickens, this volume contains three of his greatest novels.   Little Dorrit: An epic tale of two families in Victorian England, one wealthy and the other living in a debtors’ prison, and their...

    $159.00

  • THE CHARLES DICKENS COLLECTION VOLUME FOUR
    CHARLES DICKENS
    Three tales that showcase the nineteenth-century novelist’s famous flair for suspense and plot twists.   This volume includes three titles by Victorian England’s greatest storyteller.   Hunted Down: The manager of a life assurance office finds his suspicions growing after becoming acquainted with a mysterious gentleman in this rare detective story by Charles Dickens.   The Myst...

    $159.00


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