Charles Dickens
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El joven Philip Pirrip, apodado Pip, se convertirá en aprendiz de su cuñado, un pobre herrero. Pero su destino cambia al conocer a tres personas inusuales: un convicto fugitivo, una mujer trágica y una joven cautivadora. La vida de Pip se ve alterada en un instante cuando un benefactor secreto le entrega una gran suma de dinero. Pip tiene "grandes expectativas" para su nueva vida tan exitosa y rica como un joven caballero. ¿Su vida realmente ha...
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English
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"Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. From 1859's Christmas edition of All Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens, a collection set in an abandoned...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens was first published in 1854. It was the tenth novel written by this great English novelist. The book presents a highly descriptive portrayal of English society and the social and economic hardships which the people had to face. It happens to be the shortest of the novels written by Charles Dickens. There are several other aspects which make this novel different from his other novels. It is about quarter of the length...
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Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21 pages)
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English
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"Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. In the third of the stories set in the Haunted Houseof Charles Dickens,...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
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834 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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La identificación de Dickens (1812-1870) con la Navidad es tal que en alguna ocasión se ha llegado a decir que Dickens inventó la Navidad tal y como la imaginamos hoy, e incluso que Dickens es la Navidad. El presente volumen reúne algunas de las mejores historias navideñas que nos dejó. Son cuentos para leer o escuchar al calor de la chimenea: fantasmas como el que se le aparece al avaro Scrooge, cementerios lúgubres, colegios pobres, la vida...
13) Christmas tales
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Dodd, Mead & Co
Pub. Date
1941
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414 p.
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English
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Puffin Classics
Pub. Date
[2009]
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[New edition] /
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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1130L
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vii, 445 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers his own life and is captured.
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Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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The illustrated edition.
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142 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Dickens' beloved masterpiece now imagined within an enchanting woodland realm. In 1843, Charles Dickens penned a classic Christmas tale full of ghosts and the endearing humbug Ebenezer Scrooge. This beautifully illustrated edition brings alive the timeless classic of greed, regret, loneliness, reflection, compassion, hope, and a joyfully changed life"--