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Florida

Great Expectations 

California

A revised edition of Dickens's best-loved and most frequently quoted novel

This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father which evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt.

David Copperfield

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry Orphan Rosa, but they break the engagement off-and soon afterwards Edwin disappears. Is it murder? And is his jealous uncle-a sinister choirmaster with a double life and designs on Rosa-the killer? Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. In addition to its tantalizing crime, the novel also offers a characteristically Dickensian mix of the fantastical world of the imagination and a vibrantly journalistic depiction of gritty reality. This edition features a new critical introduction that assesses the evidence to show whether the mystery can truly be solved, as well as a chronology, illustrations, appendixes (including one on opium use in the nineteenth century). Edited with an introduction and notes by David Paroissien.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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North Carolina

Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens's dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens's most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, Great Expectations overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love.

Great Expectations

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

"A tale of two cities was published both serially and in volume form in 1859. The present text is the first volume edition"--T.p. verso.

A Tale of Two Cities

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'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.’ Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence his young daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and “bully of humility” Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and machinery. This edition of Hard Times is based on the text of the first volume publication of 1854. Kate Flint’s introduction sheds light on the frequently overlooked character interplay in Dickens’s great critique of Victorian industrial society. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Hard Times

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Bleak House opens in a London shrouded by an all-pervading fog-a fog that swirls around the Court of Chancery, where lawyers are enriching themselves in endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. Considered one of Dickens's greatest works, Bleak House scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." His genius for characterization, dramatic construction, social satire, and poetic evocation is memorably evidenced in this work as in no other. Peopled with characters both comic and tragic-including one of literature's first detectives and a case of spontaneous human combustion-in settings ranging from the mansion of a fear-haunted noblewoman to the squalor of the London slums, this superb narrative was hailed by Edmund Wilson as a "masterpiece."

Bleak House

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Illinois

Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is part of theBarnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Set amid smokestacks and factories, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a blistering portrait of Victorian England as it struggles with the massive economic turmoil brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Championing the mind-numbing materialism of the period is Thomas Gradgrind, one of Dickens's most vivid characters. He opens the novel by arguing that boys and girls should be taught "nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." Forbidding the development of imagination, Gradgrind is ultimately forced to confront the results of his philosophy--his own daughter's terrible unhappiness. Full of suspense, humor, and tenderness, Hard Times is a brilliant defense of art in an age of mechanism. Karen Odden received her Ph.D. from New York University, where she did her dissertation on Victorian literature. Most recently a lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she is now a freelance writer and lives in Arizona.

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Missouri

Retells in graphic novel form the classic story of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Classics)

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Oliver Twist

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'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, and he is not to be found.' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens's last novel, lay unfinished at hisdeath. Speculation remains rife as to its probably conclusion; evidence suggests that, fascinated as Dickens was by details of the plotting, his basic concern was for character and appropriate setting, in particular the character of the hero-villain, Jasper. The ancient city of Cloisterham, itscathedral a reminder of mortality, human frailty, and the lawful life, is an effective background for what Dickens daughter called a tale of 'the tragic secrets of the human heart'. Humour is provided by a host of characters ranging fro Mr Grewgious, the admirable though eccentric lawyer, and MissTwinkleton, guardian of the Young Ladies' Seminary, to Durdles, the hard-drinking stonemason, and Deputy, the irreverent lodging-house boy. This edition contains Dickens's working plans for the novel, and the text is that of the authoritative Clarendon edition.

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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A Christmas Carol

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Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library

The third in the Modern Library's series of original compilations, The Raven and the Monkey's Paw is a collection of classic tales and poems to engage our fear-seeking senses. The beauty of these stories and poems lies in their readability: ideal for sharing aloud around the campfire or for a quick, thrilling dip . . . under the covers with a flashlight. The writing itself sends as many awe-inspired shivers down the spine as do the ghosts and goblins on these pages.

Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the horror story and the chiming lyric poem, opens the volume with his best-loved stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Black Cat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Berenice," and "Ligeia." Every bit as chilling now as on the day they were written, these tales retain their power to stir the reader again and again. Poe, who was as well known for his poems as for his stories, is also represented by such verse standards as "The Raven," "Lenore," "To Helen," "Ulalume," and "Annabel Lee," among others.

Numerous other practitioners of the supernatural story are included: Edith Wharton, with her gripping "Afterward"; Charles Dickens and his famed ghost story "The Signalman"; W. W. Jacobs, with this compilation's inspiration, "The Monkey's Paw." Also here are Saki's engrossing "Sredni Vashtar"; O. Henry's story of love lost and hopes dashed, "The Furnished Room"; Wilkie Collins's lively "A Terribly Strange Bed"; and "The Boarded Window," Ambrose Bierce's tale of the bizarre.

A year-round collection for reading aloud--and frightening your friends--The Raven and the Monkey's Paw will gratify all manner of thrill-seekers.

The Raven and the Monkey's Paw

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Two-book bundle of Illustrated Classics. Books are in excellent condition except for slight tears on the spine (in picture)

Wisconsin

The Night Before Christmas and Other Holiday Tales/A Christmas Carol

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This authoritative text of Bleak House was the first to be established by a comparative study of all the surviving versions of Dickens' novel, incorporating evidence from the original manuscript and corrected proofs.

Kansas

Charles Dickens' Great Expectationsis at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values. Written at a time when Dickens' view of Victorian society had grown especially dark, this novel is people by characters bearing the author's unmistakable stamp.

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.

The Pickwick Papers

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Great shape. Was a library book. Spine is strong. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Oliver Twist 

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Pennsylvania

This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens; Jeremy Tambling (Introduction by, Notes by)

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens; Arthur J. Cox (Editor); Angus Wilson (Introduction by)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens; George Stade (Consultant Editor); Radhika Jones (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Great Expectations

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A Tale of Two Cities

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Hard Times

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens; Karen Odden (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Hard Times

Charles Dickens; Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens; George Stade (Consultant Editor); Radhika Jones (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens; George Stade (Consultant Editor); Radhika Jones (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

Great Expectations

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A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated Classics)

Charles Dickens; Robin H. Waterfield (Abridged by)

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens; Margaret Cardwell (Editor)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Karen Hesse (Foreword by); Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Edgar Allan Poe; Edith Wharton; Saki; Charles Dickens; O. Henry

The Raven and the Monkey's Paw

Charles Dickens et al

The Night Before Christmas and Other Holiday Tales/A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens; Morton D. Zabel

Bleak House

Karen Hesse (Foreword by); Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Karen Hesse (Foreword by); Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens; Stanley Weintraub (Contribution by)

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens; R. W. Buss (Illustrator); Keith Carabine (Contribution by); David Ellis (Intro and Notes by); R. Seymour (Illustrator); Hablot K. Browne (Illustrator)

The Pickwick Papers

R L Stevenson, Charles Dickens

Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens; Edward Le Comte (Afterword by)

Oliver Twist