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Hard Times - Force of Circumstance - The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir, 1952-1962 by Simone de Beauvoir; Richard Howard (Translator); Toril Moi (Introduction by); Charles Dickens; Richard Howard; Charles Way (Adapted by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
This volume of Simone de Beauvoir's legendary autobiography presents Beauvoir at the height of her international fame and portrays her inner struggle with aging. Beauvoir recounts her difficult long-distance romance with novelist Nelson Algren and her involvement with Claude Lanzmann (the future directo ...Show more
Hard Times: Popular Penguins by Charles Dickens
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Category: 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
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Dickens Series
`Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so entertainment is hard to come by and ...Show more
Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
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 f ...Show more
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the pr ...Show more
London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzle wit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune i ...Show more
Mrs. Lirriper and Other Stories by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction
Far, far south, in the strange and beautiful land of Antarctica, it is dark both day and night all winter long. When at last spring comes, the penguins and seals raise their young. But, one year, loud, unfamiliar sounds announce the arrival of a new presence—one the animals hope can share this fragile ...Show more
Mudfog Papers by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show - and t ...Show more
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
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Category: Fiction
Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of a literary collaboration between some of the leading writers of the day, and contains four unforgettable contributions by Dickens himself, including 'The Signalman' - a chill ...Show more
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family with the characters the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics
An illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you'll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and m ...Show more