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Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family... Read More
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A Christmas Carol
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $3.95
Merry Christmas, everyone!
“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!”
With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1986
Price: $3.95
Merry Christmas, everyone!
“Bah!” said Scrooge. “Humbug!”
With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
hardcover.
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Great Expectations
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a... Read more >
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more >
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A Tale of Two Cities
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1989
Price: $4.95
With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1989
Price: $4.95
With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French... Read more >
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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $10.00
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $10.00
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill through a haunting Christmas Eve encounter with four... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Great Expectations
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $9.00
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $9.00
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham's beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he... Read more >
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Little Dorrit
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $9.95
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $9.95
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David... Read more >
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A Christmas Carol
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $19.00
"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $19.00
"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover and a
paperback.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $12.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper... Read more >
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Oliver Twist
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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 captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that... Read more >
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David Copperfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $8.95
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2000
Price: $8.95
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote... Read more >
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Oliver Twist
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $7.00
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $7.00
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second... Read more >
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The Pickwick Papers
Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $6.99
The high-spirited work of a young Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is the remarkable first novel that made its author famous and that has remained one of the best-known books in the world. In it the inimitable Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies... Read more >
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Our Mutual Friend
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $11.95
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $11.95
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin... Read more >
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Bleak House
Format: Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1985
Price: $6.95
Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 976 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1985
Price: $6.95
Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set... Read more >
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The Pickwick Papers
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $11.95
Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $11.95
Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud funny and endlessly entertaining, the book... Read more >
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A Tale of Two Cities
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 14, 1990
Price: $11.00
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..."
The most famous and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 14, 1990
Price: $11.00
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..."
The most famous and... Read more >
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Hard Times
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $7.95
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $7.95
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he... Read more >
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Bleak House
Format: Trade Paperback, 928 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $11.95
Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 928 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $11.95
Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther’s romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of long-buried secrets, all set... Read more >
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David Copperfield
Format: Paperback, 960 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful stepfather, Mr. Murdstone... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 960 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $5.99
Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful stepfather, Mr. Murdstone... Read more >
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Oliver Twist
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1990
Price: $3.99
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapter book adaptation of the Dickens classic. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 18, 1990
Price: $3.99
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapter book adaptation of the Dickens classic. Read more >
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories of Conan Doyle and the nightmarish novels of Kafka.
As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Great Expectations
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: March 10, 1992
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch... Read more >
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Bleak House
Format: Hardcover, 1024 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Barbara Hardy Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1024 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1991
Price: $25.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Introduction by Barbara Hardy Read more >
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David Copperfield
Format: Hardcover, 1024 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s most celebrated novel and the author’s own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1024 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $26.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Charles Dickens’s most celebrated novel and the author’s own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes... Read more >
