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Author: Charles DickensFormat: Leather / fine binding, 152mm x 236mm, 1496 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2010Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas...

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder...

A beautiful boxed set of six of Dickens's greatest works for the Dickens anniversary year 2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most...

Penguin Classics relaunch. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very...

Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people- Ada and Richard...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound...

Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien...

'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show' Dickens's epic, exuberant...

Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever...

Dickens's sweeping family saga, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...

A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the...

'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman Charles Dickens was a phenomenon- a demonically hardworking journalist, the father of...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the...

Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as sharp as that of the Great Inimitable himself: "Dickens was most accurate when he was most fantastic. . ....

Penguin Classics relaunch A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful,...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

'Charles Dickens' is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works. It follows Dickens from early childhood, looking at how he triumphed to become the greatest celebrity of...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library "Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding" After reading A Christmas Carol,...

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Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

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John Forster's original three-volume text is abridged and brought to life with the addition of illuminating extracts from Dickens' own work and from recent criticism, biography and fiction. It is...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis handsome omnibus brings together three of Charles Dickens's most beloved and socially charged works, offering readers a sweeping encounter with the...

An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores...

Author: Martin FidoBinding: HardbackPublished: HAMLYN, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMartin Fido's Charles Dickens presents a compelling biographical account of one of English literature's most celebrated novelists. This insightful...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly crafted biographical work, A Hand Upon The Time: A Life Of Charles Dickens chronicles the remarkable...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis collection, penned by a master storyteller, presents a series of heartwarming...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A masterfully curated anthology, Selections from Charles Dickens presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three supernatural spirits...

Author: Edgar JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis definitive biography, Charles Dickens: His Tragedy And Triumph A Biography, chronicles...

Dickens's delightful Christmas writings in a gorgeous new hardback edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...

Returns to the text of the first volume edition of 1848. Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was the best of times, it was the...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Chancellor Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents two seminal works by Charles Dickens, offering a profound look into the social fabric of Victorian...

Author: Charles DickensFormat: Paperback, 120mm x 198mm, 409g, 592 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In 1843 Charles Dickens took up his pen to begin his 'ghostly little book' and so created A Christmas Carol and the mean-spirited Ebenezer...

'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...

Author: Robert Louis BrannanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles Charles Dickens's lesser-known but significant role as a theatrical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Enjoy the greatest Christmas story ever written in this handsome new gift volume. Produced in association with the UK's National Gallery, this new hardback edition's dustjacket features art from the...

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created - from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield - was also the father of ten children (and a...

Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and...