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Great Expectations (DK Illustrated classic) by Charles Dickens
$22.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of ...Show more
Great Expectations (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: very good
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" "Great Expectations", Dickens' ...Show more
Great Expectations (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens
$13.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics
One of Dickens' most famous novels, brilliantly introduced by Roddy Doyle. As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life - an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella young Pip ador ...Show more
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint in Penguin Classics. In Hard Times, the Northern mill-town of Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgri ...Show more
Hard Times (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else'. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?' A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, "Little Dorrit" is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after m ...Show more
London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Compiled by Charles Dickens, Mugby Junction is a intriguing composite of tales ranging from horror to a realistic portrayal of life around a bustling Victorian railway station. Published for the first time in its entirety, it contains one of Dickens's most celebrated ghost stories, The Signalman. Arrivi ...Show more
Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in "Penguin Classics" with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. Afte ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$19.90 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Little Oliver Twist has been brought up in the workhouse, where he and the other children are kept in terrible poverty. When Oliver makes the mistake of asking for more food, he is sent away and eventually escapes to London. There he encounters the Artful Dodger, who leads him into the clutches of the s ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: No Category
After a series of unhappy episodes, the orphaned Oliver Twist runs away to London. Here, he is thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Can Oliver escape from their clutches and discover his true history?