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1) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is the workhouse orphan who finds himself in with some bad company, but he eventually finds the happiness he deserves.
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
11) Dombey and Son
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'"--Container.
14) Ebbie
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on Charles Dickens' timeless classic A Christmas Carol. Elizabeth 'Ebbie' Scrooge is the tyrannical owner of Dobson's department store. She takes her career very seriously and cares little about those around her, firing employees, denying charity and breaking tradition to turn a profit. When Ebbie is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, she realizes that she knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
15) Oliver Twist
Language
English
Description
Born into a miserable workhouse orphanage, Oliver eventually flees to London, where the cheerful Artful Dodger immediately befriends him and introduces him to the villainous Fagin and his gang of thieves. Temporarily rescued from the prospect of a life of crime by the kindly Mr. Brownlow, Oliver finds himself pursued by savage thief Bill Sikes and the enigmatic Monks.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Grinch attempts to ruin Whoville's holiday; leprechauns help a cabin boy protect his ship's gold from a banshee; Aaron and his friends must get their bells back from the Romans so they can announce Jesus' birth; a miser is visited by ghosts of the past, present, and future; when Santa becomes ill, two elves work Christmas Eve instead; Rudolph and his friends search through time to find Baby New Year; outcast Nestor finds a very special stable...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving; a passionate young woman takes a job as governess at Thornfield, an old house with a moody master and a dark secret; Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together and fall in love, but when Cathy becomes promised to another man, Heathcliff seeks revenge; enamored with...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young charges as the children become possessed by ghostly spells;...
20) Hard times
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
