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2) Dodger
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"In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"--
3) Oliver Twist
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2006.
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English
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Recounts the adventurous life of a poor orphan who is born in the workhouse and runs away in search of a better life, only to be lured into a life of crime. Justice and truth must triumph, as Oliver discovers the true identity of his mother.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 42
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1990.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Bleak House, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 558
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2000.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Charles Dickens.
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2017
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English
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"Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses ... On one of his long...
10) Charles Dickens
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1981.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Charles Dickens.
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2012.
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Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 68
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1991.
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English
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Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work David Copperfield, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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2015.
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"On March 31, 1836, the publishers Chapman & Hall launched the first issue of a new monthly periodical entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contained four of his illustrations; the words to accompany them were written by a young journalist who used the pen name Boz. The story of a club presided over by fat, loveable Mr. Pickwick, assisted by his cockney manservant Sam Weller, The...
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2009.
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Dickens of a crime volume 2
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English
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London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiancée Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman’s quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been...
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