Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie

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  • A Christmas Carol, The Signalman, and Other Ghostly Tales: The Best Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens (Oldstyle Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings)

    • ASIN: 179187052X
    • ISBN: 179187052X
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Filled with fresh illustrations and illuminating commentary on each story, this collection of Dickens' best ghost stories is a unique and fascinating study of Britain's first great supernatural master. The defining writer of the Victorian Age, Charles Dickens rattled Western society with his dauntless progressivism and his acidic social realism. Hi... [Read More]

  • Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

    • ASIN: B07QCCDF3Y
    • Manufacturer: Athenaeum Classics

  • What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

    • ASIN: 0671882368
    • ISBN: 0671882368
    • Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England.For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when ... [Read More]

  • The Best of Charles Dickens MP3 Boxed Set

    • ASIN: 1400120306
    • ISBN: 1400120306
    • Manufacturer: Tantor Audio

    Of the dozen or so novels that Charles Dickens produced over his lifetime, three stand out as among the best: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. The unforgettable characters, the depictions of Victorian England, and the comic elements demonstrate why Dickens was the most celebrated author of his time and why he is still the... [Read More]

  • A Tale of Two Cities: Real Reads (Charles Dickens)

    • ASIN: 1906230641
    • ISBN: 9781906230647
    • Manufacturer: Real Reads

    ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.’ Sydney Carton is a lawyer who has wasted his abilities and his life. Now he has to make a difficult choice about what is really important to him, which could be a matter of life or death. The French Revolution is running its violent course; lives are ruined as a new France is crea... [Read More]

  • A Christmas Carol [Original - Unabridged - Classicals - Best of all time] (ANNOTATED)

    • ASIN: B07ZGC5RLR

    "“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, biting, clutching, covetous old sinner” is hardly hero material, but this is exactly what makes A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens such an unforgettable book and its hero, Ebenezer Scrooge such an extraordinarily enduring character.In the book's celebrated opening scene, on the night before Christmas the ol... [Read More]

  • Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol: A Book-to-Table Classic (Puffin Plated)

    • ASIN: 0451479920
    • ISBN: 0451479920
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience.A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Christmas classic featuring a selection of recipes for your holiday table from Giada de Laurentiis, Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and Trisha Yearwood!Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol... [Read More]

  • Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

    • ASIN: B00N6V3SOA

    Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius ... [Read More]

  • Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

    • ASIN: B004RZGUBM
    • Manufacturer: Delphi Classics

    Widely considered the greatest author of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, winning universal praise as a literary genius. Dickens’ novels and beloved tales not only entertained the world, but helped to improve the lives of the lower classes and fight social injustices. For the first time in p... [Read More]

  • Hard Times (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

    • ASIN: 0393284387
    • ISBN: 9780393284386
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    “An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.” ―John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvere Monod’s superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan’s expan... [Read More]

  • American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140436499
    • ISBN: 0140436499
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous description... [Read More]

  • The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays, Articles, Speeches, Travel Sketches & Letters (Illustrated): Including ... Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Sketches by Boz...

    • ASIN: B06XCQ6LLX
    • Manufacturer: e-artnow

    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:NovelsOliver TwistThe Pickwick PapersNicholas NicklebyThe Old Curiosity ShopBarnaby RudgeMartin ChuzzlewitDombey and SonDavid CopperfieldBleak HouseHard TimesLittle DorritA Tale of Two CitiesGreat ... [Read More]

  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: B00K0OI42W
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • A Christmas Carol: and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

    • ASIN: 0198822391
    • ISBN: 0198822391
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This editio... [Read More]

  • Great Expectations: (Original Edition) (Best Sellers: Classic Books)

    • ASIN: 1543168345
    • ISBN: 1543168345
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Great Expectations by Ch. Dickens. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has t... [Read More]

  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140437428
    • ISBN: 9780140437423
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows," told in a blend of realism and fairy-taleThe sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are o... [Read More]

  • Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0141439564
    • ISBN: 9780141439563
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    'Great Expectations is up there for me with the world's greatest novels' Howard Jacobson. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadCharles Dickens's Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the esc... [Read More]

  • The Outsiders

    • ASIN: B007ZUV4TO
    • Manufacturer: Speak

  • A Christmas Carol: Illustrated Classic

    • ASIN: 1948132303
    • ISBN: 1948132303
    • Manufacturer: SeaWolf Press

    A beautiful, illustrated edition of the classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.SeaWolf Press is proud to offer A Christmas Carol, another book in its collection of illustrated classic literature. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition (but it is not a photocopy.)Use Amazon's Loo... [Read More]

  • Charles Dickens: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors Book 1)

    • ASIN: B07B9GHH3W

    Charles Dickens* * *Download for FREE on Kindle Unlimited + Free BONUS Inside!* * *Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.From working in a shoe-blacking factory as a 12-year-old to help his family while his father was in debtor’s prison, Charles Dickens rose to become one of the best-known novelists of all time. L... [Read More]

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