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O Christmas Three

Charles Dickens

O Christmas Three

Four classic tales from three famous authors to enliven and inspire your celebration of Christmas this season… This beautiful gift book contains three heart-warming stories that recall Christmases past: • O.Henry's all-American tale, «The Gift of the Magi,» originally published in 1906. • Leo Tolstoy's Russian folktale, «Where Love Is, There God Is Also» from 1887. • Charles Dickens' little known classic, «The Seven Poor Travellers» and «What Christmas Is As We Grow Older,»...

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Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Tale of Two Cities

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David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Pickwick Papers (Classic Drama)

Charles Dickens

Pickwick Papers (Classic Drama)

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Essential Classics (Illustrated)

Charles Dickens

Essential Classics (Illustrated)

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte The Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. Wells Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain The Adventures of Sherlock...

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Hard Times (with an Introduction by...

Charles Dickens

Hard Times (with an Introduction by Edwin Percy Whipple)

Charles Dickens’s tenth novel, which was first published serially in Dickens’s own periodical journal “Household Words” in 1854, “Hard Times,” is a work that sought to highlight the social and economic divide that was growing between capitalistic mill owners and workers during the Victorian era of Great Britain. Set in the fictitious Coketown, “Hard Times” is a critical examination of the poor working conditions in many English factory towns of the time as well as the changing nature of the...

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A Christmas Carol (Illustrated by A...

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an Introduction by Hall Caine)

First published in 1843, “A Christmas Carol” is arguably Dickens’s most popular and accessible work. An instant success ever since its original publication, it is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold, bitter, old miser who despises Christmas and everything about it. When the ghost of Scrooge’s former business partner, Jacob Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve exactly seven years after his death, Scrooge is challenged to rethink his ways before it is too late. Over the course of the evening he...

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A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated b...

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated by Harvey Dunn with introductions by G. K. Chesterton, Andrew Lang, and Edwin Percy Whipple)

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” so begins Charles Dickens’s famous novel concerning the contentious time leading up to and during the French Revolution. In these first words Dickens exemplifies the dichotomous relationship that existed between the aristocracy and the lower classes of the time and the universal themes that would be depicted throughout the book. “A Tale of Two Cities,” is set in London and Paris, the titular two cities, at the end of the 18th century, and...

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Great Expectations (with a Preface...

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations (with a Preface by G. K. Chesterton and an Introduction by Andrew Lang)

“Great Expectations” is the classic novel by Charles Dickens that traces the life of an orphan named Pip. The novel begins on Christmas Eve 1812 where we find a seven year old Pip as he encounters an escaped convict in the cemetery where Pip’s family is buried. Pip lives with his abusive older sister, and her husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, whom Pip works for as an apprentice. A wealthy spinster, Miss Havisham, encourages a friendship between Pip and her adopted daughter Estella. When Pip...

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The Complete Christmas Books and St...

Charles Dickens

The Complete Christmas Books and Stories of Charles Dickens

This edition brings together the complete Christmas books and short stories of Charles Dickens. While readers will be most familiar with «The Christmas Carol» in which Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who endeavor to show him the error of his miserly ways just in time for Christmas, Dickens also wrote four other Christmas themed books. These include «The Chimes», the story of Toby «Trotty» Veck, a poor working-class man who has lost his faith in humanity and believes that his poverty...

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Cántico de Navidad

Charles Dickens

Cántico de Navidad

Novela publicada originalmente por Chapman & Hall el 19 de diciembre de 1843. Cuenta la historia de un hombre avaro y egoísta llamado Ebenezer Scrooge y su transformación tras ser visitado por una serie de fantasmas en Nochebuena. La novela consiguió un inmediato éxito y el aplauso de la crítica. La novela ha sido vista por la crítica como una condena del capitalismo industrial del siglo XIX y también se ha considera que contribuyó a la restauración de la Navidad como una época de...

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