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45) Mister Pip
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Pub. Date
2007.
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On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations. While artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gads Hill, Charles Dickens' Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the marshland. Timmy O'Connor was invited to the gathering with his four nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead. Who was this unpleasant stranger?
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the tenth child of Victorian England's most famous writer, Charles Dickens, is a bit of a disappointment to his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenage boy is sent to Australia in the hopes he can make something of his life. Or at least fail while out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, Aboriginals, and very...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyon. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the centre of the stage, shot to death. With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology--railways, street-lighting,...
54) Charles Dickens
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of author Charles Dickens, providing information on his poor childhood, his first job in a factory at the age of twelve, and his success as a writer.