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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dic...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dic...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dic...

The first detective novel, with Inspector Bucket the prototype of the literary detective--Bleak House is both a literary classic and a classic of crime The case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce--a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate--has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. When Lady Dedlock faints upon recognizing the handwriting in one of the documents pertaining to the case, her sinister lawyer, Tulkinghorn, immediate...

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This volume presents the complete 1855 Christmas number of Dickens' periodical Household Words, so popular after its original publication that it was immediately adapted for the stage.

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In het armenhuis wordt een jongen geboren. Direct na de bevalling overlijdt de jonge moeder, een onbekende zwerfster. Het kind krijgt een naam toegewezen: Oliver Twist. Hij wordt ëopgevoedí in het armenhuis, komt in de leer bij een begrafenisondernemer en vlucht naar Londen. Daar begint de narigheid pas goed, als hij wordt opgenomen in de dievenbende van Fagin en kennis maakt met de in- en inslechte Bill Sikes en zín heel wat minder slechte Na...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Charles Dickens' brilliant contribution to the field of crime and detection. In fact, the novel is even more of a mystery than Dickens himself intended, for he died before completing it, making it a favorite of literary detectives. Against a background of opium dens, nocturnal graveyard visits, and moldering monastic crypts, Dickens weaves a tightly knit plot centered on the ominous disappearance of young Edwin Dr...

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they a...

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In his "Ghostly little book, " Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories.

Nicholas Nickleby, or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" is a novel by Charles Dickens. It revolves around the life and exploits of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who takes it upon himself to support his mother and sisters after the death of his father. It was originally published as a serial between 1838 and 1839, and was Dickens's third novel. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) was a seminal English author. Dickens created...

Oliver, a poor orphan, escapes from the miserable workhouse where he was born only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets let by the odious Fagin. Yet no amount of cruelty can destroy his purity, and through his goodness he finds salvation. Illustrations.

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Genuinely popular theatre at its best.--The Sunday Times

The heroic image of Churchill leading the Allies to victory in World War II is turned on its head when Hitler gains air supremacy, to inflict an ignominious defeat on his sworn enemy. Shocked and humiliated, Churchill is forced to seek American assistance to drive the Germans out. Can Churchill convince the Americans to intervene? Will Churchill overcome formidable opposition and be able to return home victorious? Indeed, will he return at all...