Böcker av Charles Dickens

A school's edition of John Mortimer's stage adaptation of Dickens' classic tale, featuring extensive classroom activities created by leading national experts of Drama within English. Perfect for KS3 and KS4 English, the accompanying activities are designed to raise achievement and develop critical thinking.

The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental' William BoydWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom he is betrothed, but has never met.

The labyrinthine, ingenious plot of Bleak House focuses on the seemingly endless lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an inheritance dispute that has been moving through the courts for years. Dozens of characters, including the innocent young narrator Esther Summerson, her friends Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, and the jaded aristocrats Sir Leicester and Lady Honoria Dedlock, are directly or indirectly caught up in the case. Written in bold and inventive language, Bleak House is Dickens's epic vision of Victorian society. The critical introduction and extensive appendices to this edition focus on the novel's social context and reception, Dickens's treatment of his women characters and the working class, and the inequalities of the Victorian legal system.

Word count 25,189

This volume covers one of the most interesting period's of Dickens's life - his involvement with the young actress Ellen Ternan, separation from his wife, and his new `career' of public readings of his novels.

This volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855, plus a substantial Appendix and Addenda containing over 280 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes.

This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. These years saw the completion of the serialization of "David Copperfield", the start on "Bleak House" and the establishment of the weekly "Household Words".

The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Volume 5. 1847-1849

The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Volume 4. 1844-1846

This 11th volume presents 1158 letters for the years 1865 to 1867. Dickens's main work in the period is the completion of the monthly parts of Our Mutual Friend; unusually, it comes out in two volumes during the period of its run.

Volume 10 in the British Academy, or Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens edited by Graham Storey. The volume contains 918 letters dated between 1862 and 1864, during which time, Dickens was writing Our Mutual Friend, and paying regular visits to France.

The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens Volume 2. 1840-1841

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever.

Suitable for children of ages 10 years upwards, this title presents the unabridged story that follows the mysterious and magical events which transform the miserly, miserable Ebenezer Scrooge into 'as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man' as ever lived.

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. The lgal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some people. People are born, marry and die, and still the case continues. But will the lives of Ada and Richard be ruined, like so many before? And how will their friend Esther be affected by secrets from her past?

"Adapted from the original novel by Charles Dickens."

Charles Dickens's famous second novel recounts the story of a boy born in the workhouse and raised in an infant farm as he tries to make his way in the world. Intended to raise feeling against the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (which had emphasized the workhouse as an appropriate means of dealing with the problem of poverty), Oliver Twist also provides a sweeping portrait of London life in the 1830s--including the life of the criminal elements in society. Oliver Twist was first published in serialised form (with illustrations by George Cruikshank) in Bentley's Miscellany between February 1837 and April 1839. It was issued with some corrections and revisions in ten numbers in 1846 by Bradbury and Evans (which then also issued the same text in a single volume). Each of these ten numbers, including the Cruikshank illustrations and the advertisements, is included in this facsimile reprint of the 1846 edition. This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions--editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the 'autobiography' of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman.

Dickens's classic Christmas tale

Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist's home town - The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best.

This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes.

Great Expectations is an adapted Upper level reader written by Charles Dickens. One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham. Here, Pip meets and falls in love with the beautiful, cold-hearted Estella.

Dickens' last completed novel traces John Harmon's covert observation of Bella Wilfer, whom he must marry if he is to inherit a fortune.

This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities", and gives an insight into them both.

Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society.

Set in London at the time of the Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge interweaves a murder mystery with the story of Lord George Gordon's dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices. The brilliant descriptions of the destruction of Newgate prison by the rioters contain some of Dickens's most vivid writing. This edition uses the forthcoming Clarendon text and includes all the original illustrations, plus illuminating introduction and notes.

One of Charles Dickens' best-loved and most autobiographical stories, dramatised for a cast of ten - including Dickens' marvellous creations, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. This stage adaptation focuses on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book.