Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and 1847. Three Short Stories brings together a trio of the celebrated author's Christmas stories: The Cricket...
3) Scrooged
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Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 videodisc (188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In payment for a gambling debt, Little Nell and her grandfather are evicted from their curiosity shop by the evil Daniel Quilp and wander about the country looking for a new home.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
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834 p. ; 22 cm.
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Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
8) Oliver Twist
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Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1989
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238 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
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1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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John Jasper is haunted and restless. Unhappily settled as choirmaster in the provincial cathedral town of Cloisterham, Jasper finds himself striving for the divine in his music even as he struggles against madness brought on by ennui and opiates. Aware of his unraveling, Jasper believes his salvation may be found in the arms of Rosa, his prized pupil. His only obstacle is her fiance, Edwin Drood - Jasper's nephew.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
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xxxv, 458 p. ; 24 cm.
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"What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid, close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition, which contains over 14,000 of Dickens's letters. The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of the 'Sparkler of Albion'"-- Book...
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts. Anniversary edition.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
14) Hard times
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
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1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
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1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After Pip, an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice inherits a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, his future seems promising. But a bitter heiress is intent on preventing Pip from finding true love.
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
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1 DVD (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like sharks. The obsequious Pecksniff, whit his daughters,...
18) Oliver Twist
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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An adaption of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
19) Havisham
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IN THE TRADITION OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA, HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall-HAVISHAM-a reminder of all she owes...
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