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Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickenss epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfields extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.Dickenss great Bildung...

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensLiberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!Described by Dickens as the best story I have written, A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy. It vividly depicts a revolutionary Paris running red with blood, and a London where the poor starve. In the midst of the chaos two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a disso...

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensEvery idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own puddingCharles Dickenss tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickenss other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory.The Penguin English Library - 100 edition...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities.Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure an...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.ISBN: 9780194620918Format: 135 x 200 x 5mm | 100gAnul aparitiei: 28 Jan 2016

Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.Nr pagini: 67 pagesFormat: 134 x 198 x 5mm | 136gAnul aparitiei: 29 Nov 2007...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Nr pagini: 80 pagesFormat: 129 x 197 x 4mm | 94gAnul aparitiei: 01 May 2009

An unkind, mean, lonely old man gets a surprise when he reaches the front door of his home on the night before Christmas. As he looks at the door knocker, it turns into a face - the face of a friend who has been dead for many years!This is just the beginning of a long night in which Ebenezer Scrooge talks to his dead friend, and meets three other ghosts. The first two show him Christmas in the past and the present. The third lets him see what might happen in the future.Find out what Scrooge saw,...

The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES. The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted ...and brave.show moreISBN: 9780194793278Nr pagini: 64 pagesFormat: 128 x 200 x 6mm | 150gAnul aparitiei: 29 Nov 2007...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.show moreISBN: 0194791874Nr pagini: 96 pagesFormat: 128 x 198 x 6mm | 110gAnul aparitiei: 01 Jun 2009

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.ISBN: 9780194621151Format: 138 x 201 x 7mm | 134gAnul aparitiei: 28 Jan 2016

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.ISBN: 0194792196Nr pagini: 112 pagesFormat: 132 x 198 x 10mm | 126gAnul aparitiei: 30 Mar 2008

Die Erzahlung A Christmas Carol handelt von Ebenezer Scrooge, einem alten missmutigen Mann ohne Freunde. An Heiligabend besuchen ihn drei Geister und entfuhren ihn auf eine erschreckende Reise, die sein eigenes Leben beschreibt. Werden Scrooge die Augen geoffnet? Wird er zu einem besseren Menschen werden?show moreISBN: 9783852720524Nr pagini: 83 pagesFormat: 146 x 211 x 7mm | 160gAnul aparitiei: 01 Sep 2008...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...''Set before and during the French Revolution in the cities of Paris and London, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Dr Manette''s release from imprisonment in the Bastille and his reunion with daughter, Lucie. A French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Lucie and the ensuing tale plays out against the menacing backdrop o...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories...This heart-warming collection of festive short stories and novellas perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas. Focused on the journeys taken through life and the inherent goodness of mankind, these tales explore the true meaning of Christmas and revel in the joyful season of goo...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,\\'' said the Spirit. \\''Look upon me!\\''A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens\\'' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as \\''humbug\\''. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There''s no better rule.''Living with his sister and her husband, Pip is an orphan without any expectations. It is only when he begins to visit a rich old woman, Miss Havisham and her adopted niece that he begins to hope for something better. When it is revealed that Pip has inherited a large sum of money from a mysterious benefactor on the condition that he...

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.Following the life of David through many sufferings and great adversity, the reader will also find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's greatest stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, ...

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters.Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate ...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artf...