Author : Marcia Williams
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780744598384
Five lively retellings of classic Dickens - Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. All created in Marcia Williams' distinctive comic-strip style.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1858
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category :
ISBN :
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Christmas stories, English
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Author : John Forster
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN :
Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212588
The subject of Frederick Busch's extraordinary fiction, The Mutual Friend, is Charles Dickens. First published in 1978, Busch's portrait of the Chief (or the Inimitable, as Dickens calls himself) was immediately hailed as a lively, accurate, and brilliantly imagined novel of the great Victorian and his age. Busch's guide to Dickens' world is George Dolby, the Chief's factotum in his last years. The reminiscence begins with the Great American Tour of 1867-68, Dickens is ill and crotchety but ever eager to dazzle the New World with his dramatic readings. Through Dolby we come to a circle of characters around Dickens, among them his long-suffering wife Kate and the actress Ellen Ternan, mistress to the Inimitable. Of Busch's compelling mastery over his larger-than-life subject, the English critic Angus Wilson writes, "Mr. Busch gives us Dickens in all his genius and makes us understand how that genius worked."
Author : Samantha Silva
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250154030
"CHARMING...I READ IT IN A COUPLE OF EBULLIENT, CHRISTMASSY GULPS." —Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See "GRACED BY THE GHOSTLY PRESENCE OF MR. DICKENS HIMSELF...PROMISES TO PUT YOU IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT." —USA Today A beloved, irresistible novel that reimagines the story behind Charles Dickens' Christmas classic Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses. And a serious bout of writer’s block sets in. Frazzled and filled with self-doubt, Dickens seeks solace in his great palace of thinking, the city of London itself. On one of his long night walks, in a once-beloved square, he meets the mysterious Eleanor Lovejoy, who might be just the muse he needs. As Dickens’ deadlines close in, Eleanor propels him on a Scrooge-like journey that tests everything he believes about generosity, friendship, ambition, and love. The story he writes will change Christmas forever.
Author : Shannon Hale
Publisher : First Second
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250849861
Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are. Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy. As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects her to be? And who does she actually want to be? With their signature humor, warmth, and insight, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham have crafted another incredible love letter to their younger selves and to readers everywhere, a reminder to us all that we are enough.
Author : Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher : National Portrait Gallery
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781855145962
Historian and writer Lucinda Hawksley explores the life of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens - one of the first people to whom the term 'celebrity' in its modern sense was applied, and whose extensive circle of friends and associates embraced many of the most eminent and influential figures of the Victorian age ... Through sheer force of will he propelled himself out of a rather depressing existence into the circle of intelligent, radical, questioning friends who feature in this book. Guests at his parties could expect to meet actors, artists, radical politicians, prison reformers, philanthropists and musicians, as well as writers ... llustrated with images from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this book explores the man behind the novels and the lives of those around him.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
With trademark liveliness and wit, the creator of BRAVO, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! moves into Victorian territory-presenting five retellings of classic Dickens that are sure to lure the most reluctant reader. What the Dickens? GREAT EXPECTATIONS, OLIVER TWIST, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, DAVID COPPERFIELD, and A TALE OF TWO CITIES - five literary classics take on a new life in these wonderfully accessible retellings by Marcia Williams. A welcoming introduction to Dickens’s work, this completely kid-friendly collection offers a simple narrative retelling of each tale, along with amusing scene-to-scene drawings of well-known Dickensian characters and bits of dialogue excerpted from the original texts.
