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Hard Times: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of ...Show more
Little Dorrit by DICKENS Charles
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Category: Classics
Amy Dorrit's father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy's fortunes are about to change: the arrival of ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit (Vintage Classic) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
This title is presented with an introduction by Simon Callow. Wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded by a host of grasping, unscrupulous relatives and suspects the family vices of selfishness and greed are already showing in his grandson. The younger Martin is therefore cast out upon the world to l ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
When Nicholas' father dies he, his mother and sister, Kate, are left penniless. To earn his keep, Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, is a one eyed tyrant who insists on a harsh regime. Nicholas embarks on an adventure that takes him from ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In "Oliver Twist", Dickens graphically conjures up the capital's underworld, ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
This title provides an introduction by Nick Hornby. John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met. When Harmon's body is pulled out of the Thames, all of London is fascinated by the mys ...Show more
Pickwick Papers (Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens’s first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and f ...Show more