Compass Publishing brings Charles Dicken’s second novel, featuring the innocent young Oliver seemingly trapped in a world of child labor and thievery, to its line of Compass Classic Readers. English l
Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a m
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" typ
Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’s weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the chee
I will celebrate Christmas and try to remember it all year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The spirits of all three will always be in me. Old Ebenezer Scrooge is forced to chan
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" typ
Great literature can pose problems for narrators. If the book is a classic, the pitfalls are that the listener has a preconceived notion of how the book should sound and, perhaps, how the characters t
From "A Christmas Carol," the beloved tale of Scrooge's transformation from humbug to philanthrope, to "A Christmas Tree," which gives a child's-eye-view of Victorian Christmas, to "Christmas Dinner,"
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked??contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick??Papers. Set against London's seedy back??street slums, Oliver Twist is??the saga of a workhouse orphan capt
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coa
Macmillan Students’ Novels are intended for those reading major classic novels for the first time. Each volume contains the text, together withan introduction, a section of plates, and explanatory not
This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846 text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intention
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" typ
