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A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback, Reissue)
Charles Dickens; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Introduction by Peter Merchant; Notes by Peter Merchant; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel,
traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the
cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based
his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French
Revolution. 'The best story I have written' was Dickens' own
verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to
disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical
fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of
human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.
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Bleak House (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of
Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak
House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his
reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant
comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully
engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable
indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a
great city's underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay,
draw upon the author's personal knowledge and experience. But it is
his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that
embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. In a unique
creative experiment, Dickens divides the narrative between his
heroine, Esther Summerson, who is psychologically interesting in
her own right, and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both
complements and challenges hers.
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David Copperfield (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Adrienne Gavin; Notes by Adrienne Gavin; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ
Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne
(Phiz). Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like
this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on
earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm
for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its
autobiographical form. Following the life of David through many
sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many
light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's
greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep,
Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family. Few readers,
arriving at the end of David Copperfield, will not wish to echo
Thackeray's famous praise, having read the first monthly part -
'Bravo Dickens'.
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The Pickwick Papers (Paperback)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by David Ellis; Notes by David Ellis; Illustrated by R. T. Seymour, R. W. Buss, …
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With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent
at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and
Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first
novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic
writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments,
it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000
by the final part. In the century and a half since its first
appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller and the whole
of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who
love English literature in general, and the works of Dickens in
particular.
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Dombey and Son (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Karl Ashley Smith; Notes by Karl Ashley Smith; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Karl Ashley Smith, University of
St Andrews. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Mr Dombey is
a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take
his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and
declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing
love for her father goes unreturned. 'Girls' said Mr Dombey, 'have
nothing to do with Dombey and Son'. When Walter Gay, a young clerk
in her father's office, rescues her from a bewildering experience
in the streets of London, his unforgettable friends believe he is
well on his way to receiving her hand in marriage and inheriting
the company. It is to be a very different type of story. Dombey and
Son moved grown men to tears (Thackeray despaired of 'writing
against such power as this'), but its rich, comic characters and
their joyful explosions of language draw laughter with equally
unerring magic.
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole,
with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of
English, University of Sussex. This vivid historical and political
novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots,
instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780.
Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and
nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these
for selfish ends. His intense account of the riots is interwoven
with the mysterious tale of a long-unsolved murder and with a
romance involving forbidden love, treachery and heroism. Barnaby
Rudge abounds in memorably strange, comic and grotesque characters.
Furthermore, recent historical events have renewed its political
topicality.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Peter Preston; Notes by Peter Preston; Illustrated by S.L. Fildes, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Series edited by …
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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of
Nottingham. Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne
(Phiz). Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a
tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient
cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in
nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial
adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel's
themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of
Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts. A sombre
and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and
Dickens's usual superb command of language combine to make this an
exciting and tantalising story. Also included in this volume are a
number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as
different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual
selection illustrates Dickens's immense creativity and versatility.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Peter Preston; Notes by Peter Preston; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), George Cruickshank; Series edited by …
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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of
Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George
Cruickshank. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination
of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and
its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and
the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an
immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of
Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the
imagination of his readers that while the novel was being
serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate. Dickens was
conscious of the 'many friends' the novel had won for him, and 'the
many hearts it turned to me when they were full of private sorrow',
and it remains one of the most familiar and well-loved of his
works.
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Little Dorrit (Paperback, New edition)
Charles Dickens; Introduction by Peter Preston; Notes by Peter Preston; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of
Nottingham. With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Little
Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and
metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's
Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in
private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the
vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult
perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical picture of
the Circumlocution Office. The novel's range of characters - the
honest, the crooked, the selfish and the self-denying - offers a
portrait of society about whose values Dickens had profound doubts.
Little Dorrit is indisputably one of Dickens' finest works, written
at the height of his powers. George Bernard Shaw called it 'a
masterpiece among masterpices', a vedict shared by the novel's many
admirers.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Paperback, New Ed)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Norman Page; Illustrated by Daniel Maclise, George Cattermole, Hablot K Browne, …
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‘Alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay, and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber’ Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the loathsome Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens’s portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even while it was criticized for its sentimentality. Yet alongside the story’s pathos are some of Dickens’s greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne’er-do’well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved ‘Marchioness’ and the lustful, demonic Quilp himself. This edition, based on the original text of 1841, contains an introduction discussing the various contrasting themes of the novel and its roots in Dickens’s own personal tragedy, with prefaces to the 1841 and 1848 editions, a chronology, notes and the original illustrations produced for the serial version.
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Nicholas Nickleby (Paperback, New Ed)
Charles Dickens; Illustrated by Hablot K Browne; Read by Michael Siberry; Introduction by Mark Ford; Edited by Mark Ford; Notes by …
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‘I shall never regret doing as I have – never, if I starve or beg in consequence’ When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father’s death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. Nicholas’s adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray a extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummle, and their daughter, the ‘infant phenomenon’. Like many of Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterized by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing Dickens’s comic genius at its most unerring. Mark Ford’s introduction compares Nicholas Nickleby to eighteenth-century picaresque novels, and examines Dickens’s criticism of the ‘Yorkshire Schools’, his social satire and use of language. This edition also includes the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’, a chronology and a list for further reading.
Additional Illustrator Is W. M. Thackeray.
Additional Illustrator Is W. M. Thackeray.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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