A Child's Dream of a Star
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 82
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Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780393319934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12 Wagner Rise. His sudden decision to marry and move to America precipitates a crisis in this household of women, all of whom owe fierce, idiosyncratic allegiance to Oliver and want to save him and their world from an unsuitable, inexplicable match. Yet in the end it is only Bobs, the twelve-year-old who is Oliver's constant companion, who knows his dangerous secret: it is from her that Oliver attempts to flee. In a series of dramatic tableaux, unfolding over the course of many years, A. N. Wilson threads the dark labyrinths of Wagner Rise and illuminates the tragic consequences of these attachments. With this provocative novel about forbidden love, Wilson has produced a stunning, haunting literary work-a Lolita for our times. "A respectable, genuine, intellectual portrait of a pedophile that also makes for a gripper indeed. . . . Sex-tormented Oliver . . . in spite of all (and 'all' includes plenty) remains believably human, thanks to the estimably gifted Wilson." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Wicked English wit . . . has the kind of sly humor where grimness itself becomes the joke." - The New Yorker "Well written and sensitively realized. . . . [Wilson] lets the characters' fates unfold over the years and shows, touchingly, how the pain and self-deception at 12 Wagner Rise taints all their lives." - Philadelphia Inquirer
Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrea Warren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0547395744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher: Little People, BIG DREAMS
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 0711258945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduce your child to the life of Charles Dickens, the great author of classic literature including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and many more.
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0375987401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. This Booklist Best Children's Book of the Year is historical fiction at its ingenious best.
Author: Charles Lamb
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lane Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1596436085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the bestselling author of "It's a Book" comes a funny, touching tale about the legacy of America's greatest president. Full color.
Author: Elizabeth B. Brownell
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mus White
Publisher: Dawsons Book Shop
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780870932830
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