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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxxv, 458 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2009, 2005, 1990
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season."The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life" and "The Haunted Man" were written for the Christmas market, and all lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home. But there is more...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
834 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Can a grouch find reason to enjoy the holiday season? It's Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, and Oscar has just received a ghost-o-gram. He will be visited by three ghosts tonight: a famous British grouch, a talking Christmas tree, and a robot.
Author
Series
Playing with plays volume 10
Publisher
Playing With Plays
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
102 pages.
Description
"A Christmas Carol like you have never read it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 7-18+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and have fun with Charles Dickens' classic story."--Amazon.com.
12) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
13) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
vi, 151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
14) Death by Dickens
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
An anthology of original mystery stories celebrates the work of Charles Dickens by bringing in some of his most famous characters, with contributions by Bill Crider, Carole Nelson Douglas, Peter Tremayne, and Anne Perry.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
292 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Description
A manga adaptation of the classic literary novel by Charles Dickens, a rags-to-riches tale of Pip, a young orphan and the transformation he endures through the circumstances of his life.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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,...
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