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A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer's "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, the Odyssey is a...

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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes...

Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, red-eye, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, sauce, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are...

This comprehensive biography of the great 19th-century novelist combines extensive research and documentation, including much new speculation on the nature of his affair with Ellen Ternan, with imaginative reconstruction of...

'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: 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...

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...

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,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew novels have launched a literary career with such explosive joy as Charles Dickens's first, The Pickwick Papers — a...

The Comic masterpiece that catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame THE PICKWICK PAPERS began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence....

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...

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

Charles Dickens' notes on America: its people, its culture, its laws and its foibles When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of...

From one of England's literary masters, a monumental biography of Dickens worthy of standing beside Painter's Marcel Proust and Ellman's James Joyce. Ackroyd constructs a stunning life and times work...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA work of literary criticism and scholarship, Dickens and the Short Story presents a focused examination of Charles Dickens's contributions...

Edition: First editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed work of literary biography and history, Dickens at Doughty...

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...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback...

GRAB A BUMPER, FORGET YOUR FANTEEGS, AND ROAM AT A FOOT-PACE THROUGH THE TWISTY ALLEYWAYS OF THE VICTORIAN VERNACULAR!What larks! Dive into the world of literature's ultimate wordsmith, Charles Dickens,...

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,...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

From the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a compelling and spirited novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback. In the late 1800s, rather than...

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...

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. . ....

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: 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...

Written in the last decade of Charles Dickens's life, Great Expectations was widely praised and universally admired. This handsome hardcover edition from the Dover Bookshelf traces the journey of a...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew literary biographies have matched the ambition and intimacy of Edgar Johnson's Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph...

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...

I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.' Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the...

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...

Penguin Classics relaunch The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by...

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,...