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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned as soon as he is born, Oliver Twist seems destined for a life of misery. Miraculously, he survives years of neglect, hunger, and violence. On his ninth birthday he is taken to the workhouse, and now his troubles are really about to begin. Find out what happens to Oliver in this vivid graphic novel retelling of Charles Dickens' literary classic"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s, Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications. However, it differs...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"A first-ever trade edition of the original manuscript of the beloved Christmas classic. Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens's own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, A Christmas Carol:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, Charles Dickens's classic work is a heartwarming, mixed-media special edition complete with charming Victorian English-inspired watercolor paintings, decorative hand-lettering, vintage imagery, and space for journaling and reflection. As you read and connect with this unique, artfully-designed Visual Journey, its pages become a reminder that Christmas should be a time of goodwill to everybody--both the Cratchits and the Scrooges...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Overview: A bestseller that gripped the nation when it was first published, The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel of sharp contrasts: of life and death, youth and age, desire and innocence, humour and villainy. For the character of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, Dickens drew on a tragedy in his own life, the death at the age of seventeen of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth. Five years later he wrote, 'the desire...
7) A Christmas carol: book and bible study guide based on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas carol
Author
Publisher
Brown Chair Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the reclusive curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by four spirits who force him to examine his selfish ways. When Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning, he is a new man, flinging open the windows of spiritual transformation and given to an entirely new outlook on life. A Christmas Carol Book and Bible Study Guide includes the entire book of this Dickens classic as well as Bible...
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
℗2012
Language
English
Description
Dickens tells Oliver's story of being born in a workhouse and raised on a child farm until he is given work as a coffin maker's apprentice. Oliver is mistreated by the coffin maker's wife, and he escapes to London where he meets the Artful Dodger and Fagin, who are pickpockets.
Author
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to accept that Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill. One Christmas Eve, his outlook changes when his dead business partner's ghost warns him of visits from three other ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Scrooge must revisit his own Christmas ghosts and get to the true meaning of Christmas: peace, goodwill, and charity.
11) Twist: [a novel]
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home, and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art collector Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realizes that he finally has...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventuring industry drives the economy of Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. When life gave Fenrir Goldson a second chance, he asked for a gift receipt. Mr. Goldson is filthy rich. He's also callous and cruel and hasn't got a festive bone in his ancient body. Naturally, he's due for a holiday haunting. When his business partner, Bolbi Baggs, announces that they're to be visited by three spirits, Mr. Goldson...
14) Marley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
They met in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys. With Jacob Marley's genius for deception and Ebenezer Scrooge's brilliance with numbers, they build a shipping empire of dubious legality and pitiless commitment to the slave trade, concealing their true investments under the noses of the London authorities. When beautiful Belle Fairchild steps into Ebenezer's life and calls into question the practices that made him wealthy, Ebenezer...
Author
Series
Classics illustrated (New York N.Y.) volume 1
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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. Presented in comic book format.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel retelling of Dicken's story of the young orphan Pip who while in a misty churchyard on the marshes is terrified by an escaped convict. Years later Pip receives a generous gift of money, so that he can live the life of a gentleman. But who sent the money?