Charles Dickens and Friends

Charles Dickens and Friends

Author: Marcia Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780744598384

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Five lively retellings of classic Dickens - Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. All created in Marcia Williams' distinctive comic-strip style.


Charles Dickens and Friends

Charles Dickens and Friends

Author: Marcia Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780744592320

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This volume retells, in comic-strip style, five of Dickens' most popular stories: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.


Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 1094

ISBN-13: 8726605694

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A rich misanthropic man with no friends die and leaves all his money to his estranged son, John Harmon, who lives abroad. But Harmon can only inherit the money on the condition that he marries a woman he has never met. When Harmon neglects to return home to collect his inheritance, it leaves everyone puzzled. But then the dead body of a young man is found in the Thames. The plot and characters are exquisite in this last completed novel by Dickens. A sophisticated masterpiece, Our Mutual Friend tells the story of the downside of money and the corruptive power it holds. The book was referenced on the show Lost as well as in the video game Assasin’s Creed: Syndicate and in the Paul McCartney song Jenny Wren. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English author, social critic, and philanthropist. Much of his writing first appeared in small instalments in magazines and was widely popular. Among his most famous novels are Oliver Twist (1839), David Copperfield (1850), and Great Expectations (1861).


A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.


Summer of Secrets

Summer of Secrets

Author: Cora Harrison

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 144830489X

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When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate. August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present.