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'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge from the shadows' DAMIEN LEWIS, author of SAS Brothers in Arms and The...

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New critical introduction, outlining the novel's publishing history, and discussing its reception, the character of Little Nell, Dickens's style, and the illustrations The tale of Little Nell gripped the nation...

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...

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might...

'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...

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...

'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...

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...

The book titled The Charles Dickens Encyclopaedia by the author Michael Hardwick. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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...

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...

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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...

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. . ....

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...

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...

Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the world's most celebrated detective is unleashed not merely upon the foggy streets of Victorian London, but across the...

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...

Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. Dickens the novelist,...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt...

'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...

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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...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIn this masterful and deeply engaging historical biography, noted scholar John Tregenza delivers Professor of Democracy, the definitive chronicle of...

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Author: J. David Archibald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new...

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Author: John TregenzaBinding: HardbackPublisher: Melbourne University Press., 1968Edition: First Edition.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damage Markings: No markingsA richly detailed biographical work, Peter Brent's portrait of Charles Darwin chronicles the life of one of history's...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markings"The Life of Charles Dickens" is a foundational literary biography in which John Forster, Dickens's closest...

Author: Donald Mci. JohnsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Christopher Johnson, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling narrative, A Doctor Regrets, chronicles the poignant...

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Penguin Classics relaunch The work of a young novelist at the height of his powers, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. Around the central...

"The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment:...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodBefore there was a Victorian novel in the truest sense, there was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens's uproarious debut...

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...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning throughout. Markings: Previous owner markings, some pencil annotations throughout; frontispiece illustration present. Binding condition: Binding...

Presents an illustrated introduction to the public and private life of the popular Victorian novelist.