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Martin Chuzzlewit
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1994 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20091996-05-15
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Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the 'springs of character'. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage to America. It is a voyage which will have crucial consequences not only for young Martin, but also for his grandfather and his grandfather's servant, Mary Graham with whom young Martin is in love. The commercial swindle of the Anglo-Bengalee company and the fraudulent Eden Land Corporation have a topicality in our own time. This strong sub-plot shows evidence of Dickens' mastery of crime where characters such as the criminal Jonas Chuzzlewit, the old nurse Mrs Gamp, and the arch-hypocrite Seth Pecksniff are the equal to any in his other great novels. Generations of readers have also delighted in Dickens' wonderful description of the London boarding-house — 'Todgers'.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1998 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092002-03-26
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Dickens' final novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870, is a mystery story much influenced by the 'Sensation Novel' as written by his friend Wilkie Collins. The action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in Victorian London. Drugs, disappearances, sexual obsession, disguise and a possible murder are among the themes and motifs. A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens' usual 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, guilt and childhood romance.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1995 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091998-04-07
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Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs and many more. Combining these with typically Dickensian elements of burlesque and farce, the novel is eminently suited to dramatic adaptation. So great was the impact as it left Dickens' pen that many pirated versions appeared in print before the original was even finished. Often neglected by critics, Nicholas Nickleby has never ceased to delight readers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic masterpieces of nineteenth-centure literature.
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 2000 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092004-03-19
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Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes — grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 5: David Copperfield
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112012-03-19
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'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship... and love.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 5: Great Expectations
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102010-07-23
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In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Pearson Год: 2008 Страниц: 136 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20132009-12-07
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His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends – but can they protect him from people who rob and murder without mercy?
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Oliver Twist Reader
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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A retelling of Dickens' famous novel about the trials and tribulations of the poor young orphan boy, Oliver.Follow his journey from the appalling conditions of a nineteenth-century workhouse to London.
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A Tale of Two Cities Reader
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-09-27
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A romantic thriller set against the background of the French Revolution.
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092012-03-29
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«'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. «A Christmas Carol» has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: «The Chimes», «The Cricket on the Hearth», «The Battle of Life», and «The Haunted Man». All five stories show Dickens at his unpredictable best, jumbling together comedy and melodrama, genial romance and urgent social satire, in pursuit of his aim 'to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'.»
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Usborne Год: 2006 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20092009-09-27
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- A retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story for children growing in their reading confidence and ability. — Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
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Our Mutual Friend
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Wordsworth Год: 1998 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092003-08-17
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«With an Introduction and Notes by Deborah Wynne, Chester College. Illustrated by Marcus Stone. «Our Mutual Friend», Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is believed drowned under suspicious circumstances — a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity until he can evaluate Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colourful characters and incidents — the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas Wegg.»
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A Christmas Carol (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: CIDEB Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092004-09-30
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Mean, old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. He doesn’t like people. He only likes money. But when the ghost of his friend, Old Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve, it’s the beginning of a very strange night. Next morning he wishes everybody a Merry Christmas! So what has changed bad old Scrooge?
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Great Expectations (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: CIDEB Год: 2002 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092004-07-04
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Pip Pirrip is a poor orphan boy destined to become a blacksmith. But a chance meeting with an escaped convict and an invitation to the house of the eccentric Miss Havisham mark the beginning of great changes in his life. After receiving a large amount of money from a secret benefactor Pip goes to London to be educated as a ‘gentleman’. But who is his secret benefactor?
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2009 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20112011-10-07
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The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all 24 original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking Introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Top page Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law and on thieves' slang.
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The Pickwick Papers
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Oxford University Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 786 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20132013-09-24
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In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write 'a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was Top page born: its supposed 'papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works.
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Great Expectations
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella but can they ever be together?
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A Christmas Carol
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present', said the Spirit. 'Look upon me!' A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.
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Oliver Twist
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable and enduring characters, including innocent Oliver himself, the Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy.
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Great Expectations
Автор: Charles Dickens Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.' Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham and her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Pip has inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the condition that he moves to London to become a gentleman, Pip's adventure really begins. Epic, illuminating and memorable, Dickens mysterious tale of Pip's quest to find the truth about himself is one of his most enduring and popular novels to date.
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