1812-1870

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Savage reprisals

Bleak house, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
2002

Oliver Twist

With an afterword by Edward Le Comte
1988
This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse, runs away to London where he is captured by thieves and finally escapes, is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.

Great Expectations

With a new introduction by Stanley Weintraub
1998
The orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the strangely ambiguous figure of the master lawyer Mr. Jaggers--all play their part in a story whose very title reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens' searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.

The annotated Christmas carol

a Christmas carol
1989
A reprinting of the 1843 first edition, complete with the original illustrations, is supplemented by over eighty related sketches and annotations on and analyses of the text and historical notes on the writing of "The Christmas Carol.".

Great expectations

the graphic novel : quick text version
2009
A graphic novel retelling of Charles Dickens' novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Dickens' London

an imaginative vision
1987
A visual interpretation of the nineteenth century London of Dickens' time.

Here comes Dickens

the imagination of a novelist
1974

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