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Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night.

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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices is a charming evocation of the adventures Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins experienced on a walking tour of the north-west of England.

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Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist's home town - The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best.

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And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy's fiance and to plot the murder of Edwin himself.

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The humour of the shop and the pilgrimage counterbalance the tragic and sentimental story of Little Nell. A Disney production of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP has recently finished shotting in Ireland, starring James Fox, Peter Ustinov, and Tom Courtenay.

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When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature.

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The quintessentially English Don Quixote, here presented in a new edition based on the authoritative text and accompanied by notes and extra material to help the modern reader.

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"No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused" A Christmas Carol is one of the most beloved and heart-warming Christmas tales of all time. Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy and unsympathetic man who has no time for Christmas.

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In this stirring classic of love, revenge and resurrection, Dickens plunges the reader into one of history's most explosive eras - the French Revolution. At the center is the novel's hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.

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This volume focuses on mining. The goldfields stories in Household Words present a broad picture of life at the diggings. Occasionally a fabulous find (sometime spent in a week); but, more often, depictions of optimistic diggers being beaten by the hard life, hard luck or looming failure.

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Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as the first major publicist for the police detective. In Hunted Down

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Offers a depiction of shady financiers and banking collapses that seems uncannily topical, as does the author's compassionate admiration for Amy Dorrit, the 'child of the Marshalsea', as she struggles to hold her family together in the face of neglect, irresponsibility, and ruin.

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The impact of this classic, essential contribution to Victorian literature is still being felt today.

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Features orphan Little Nell and her beloved grandfather who flee from the moral and material ravages of London and the machinations of the villainous dwarf, Quilp. This title not only illustrates a poverty that looks uncannily familiar, but forges a heroism from the small acts of caring that make modern life meaningful.

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Designed and illustrated by Seth, this reissue breathes new life into a work many consider Dickens' best ghost story.

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"Dickens' unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh." London Times

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In his last completed novel, published in 1864-5, Dicens confirmed his reputation as a story-teller of genius while extending the sphere of his imagination to new worlds. Like all Dickens' novels, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND weaves together many stories, uniting them in the bizarre symbolism of the wealth which derives from a rubbish tip.

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Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this work is Charles Dickens' masterful portrait of Paris and London - the shadow of the guillotine's blade hangs over two reputable men, one French, one English, as they compete for the love of Lucie Manette.

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A collection of all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.

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Charles Dickens' shortest novel, addressing themes of family, education and industrialisation in Victorian England.

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A stunning picture book that adapts one of the most famous stories of Charles Dickens!

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Thirteen stories from Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz, selected and introduced by the inimitable J. B. Priestley