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Wordsworth Classics Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Our Mutual
Friend By Charles Dickens
    Our Mutual Friend,
    Dickens' last novel,
    gives one of his most
    comprehensive and
    penetrating accounts of
    Victorian society. Its
    vision of a culture
    stifled by materialistic
    values emerges not just
    through its central
    narratives, but through
    its apparently incidental
    characters and scenes.
    The chief of its several
    plots centres on John
    Harmon who returns to
    England as his father's
    heir. He is believed
    drowned under suspicious
    circumstances - a
    situation convenient to
    his wish for anonymity
    until he can evaluate
    Bella Wilfer whom he must
    marry to secure his
    inheritance. The story is
    filled with colourful
    characters and incidents
    - the faded aristocrats
    and parvenus gathered at
    the Veneering's dinner
    table, Betty Higden and
    her terror of the
    workhouse and the greedy
    plottings of Silas Wegg.
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Wordsworth Classics Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Martin
Chuzzlewit By Charles Dickens
    Martin Chuzzlewit is
    Charles Dickens' comic
    masterpiece about which
    his biographer, Forster,
    noted that it marked a
    crucial phase in the
    author's development as
    he began to delve deeper
    into the 'springs of
    character'. Old Martin
    Chuzzlewit, tormented by
    the greed and selfishness
    of his family,
    effectively drives his
    grandson, young Martin,
    but also for his
    grandfather and his
    grandfather's servant,
    Mary Graham, with whom
    young Martin is in love.
    The commercial swindle
    of the Anglo-Bengalee
    Company and the
    fraudulent Eden Land
    Corporation have a
    topicality in our own
    time. This strong
    sub-plot shows evidence
    of Dickens's mastery of
    crime where characters
    such as the criminal
    Jonas Chuzzlewit, the
    old nurse Mrs Gamp, and
    the arch-hypocrite Seth
    Pecksniff are the equal
    to any in his other great
    novels. Generations of
    readers have also
    delighted in Dickens'
    wonderful description of
    the London boarding -
    house - 'Todgers'.
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Wordsworth Classics The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics The
Mystery Of Edwin Drood By
Charles Dickens
    Dickens's final novel,
    left unfinished at his
    death, is a tale of
    mystery who fast-paced
    action takes place in an
    ancient cathedral city
    and in some of the
    darkest places in
    nineteenth-century
    London. Drugs, sexual
    obsession, colonial
    adventuring and puzzles
    about identity are among
    the novel's themes. At
    the centre of the plot
    lie the baffling
    disappearance of Edwin
    Drood and the many
    explanations of his
    whereabouts. A sombre
    and menacing atmosphere,
    a fascinating, range of
    characters and Dickens's
    usual superb command of
    language combine to make
    this an exciting and
    tantalising story. Also
    included in this volume
    are a number of unjustly
    neglected stories and
    sketches, with subjects
    as different as murder
    and guilt and childhood
    romance. This unusual
    selection illustrates
    Dickens's immense
    creativity and
    versatility.
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Wordsworth Classics Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Nicholas
Nickelby By Charles Dickens
    Following the success of
    Pickwick Papers and
    Oliver Twist, Nicholas
    Nickleby was hailed as a
    comic triumph and firmly
    established Dickens as a
    'literary gentleman'. It
    has a full supporting
    cast of delectable
    characters that range
    from the iniquitous
    Wackford Squeers and his
    family, to he delightful
    Mrs Nickleby, taking in
    the eccentric Crummles
    and his travelling
    players, the Mantalinis,
    the Kenwigs and many
    more. Combining these
    with typically Dickensian
    elements of burlesque and
    farce, the novel is
    eminently suited to
    dramatic adaptation. So
    great was its impact as
    it left Dickens' pen that
    many pirated versions
    appeared in print and on
    stage before the original
    was even finished.
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Wordsworth Classics Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Barnaby
Rudge By Charles Dickens
    This vivid historical and
    political novel by
    Dickens is centred on the
    infamous 'No Popery'
    riots, instigated by
    Lord George Gordon,
    which terrorised London
    in 1780. Dickens targets
    are prejudice,
    intolerance, religious
    bigotry and nationalistic
    fervour, together with
    the villains who exploit
    these for selfish ends.
    HIs intense account of
    the riots is interwoven
    with the mysterious tale
    of a long-unsolved murder
    and with a romance
    involving forbidden love,
    treachery and heroism.
    Barnaby Rudge abounds in
    memorably strange, comic
    and grotesque characters.
    Furthermore, recent
    historical events have
    renewed its political
    topicality.
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Wordsworth Classics The Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics The
Curiosity Shop By Charles
Dickens
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    (1840-1841), with its
    combination of the
    sentimental, the
    grotesque and the
    socially concerned, and
    its story of pursuit and
    courage, which sets the
    downtrodden and the
    plucky against the
    malevolent and the
    villainous, was an
    immediate popular
    success. Little Nell
    quickly became one of
    Dickens' most celebrated
    characters, who so
    captured the imagination
    of his readers that while
    the novel was being
    serialised, many of them
    wrote to home about her
    fate. Dickens was
    conscious of the 'many
    friends' the novel had
    won for him, and 'the
    many hearts it turned to
    me when they were full of
    private sorrow', and it
    remains one of the most
    familiar and well-loved
    of his works.
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Wordsworth Classics Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Little
Dorritt By Charles Dickens
    Little Dorritt is a
    classic tale of
    imprisonment, both
    literal and metaphorical,
    while Dickens' working
    title for the novel,
    Nobody's Fault,
    highlights its concern
    with personal
    responsibility in private
    and public life. Dickens'
    childhood experiences
    inform the vivid scenes
    in Marshalsea debtor's
    prison, while his adult
    perceptions of
    governmental failures
    shape his satirical
    picture of the
    Circumlocution Office.
    The novel's range of
    characters - the honest,
    the crooked, the selfish
    and the self-denying -
    offers a portrait of a
    society about whose
    values Dickens had
    profound doubts. Little
    Dorrit is indisputably
    one of Dickens' finest
    works, written at the
    height of his powers.
    George Bernard Shaw
    called it 'a masterpiece
    among masterpieces', a
    verdict shared by the
    novel's many admirers.
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Wordsworth Classics David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics David
Copperfield By Charles Dickens
    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, Creakle,
    Betsy Trotwood, and the
    Peggotty family. Few
    readers, arriving at the
    end of David Copperfield,
    will not wish to echo
    Thackeray's famous
    praise, having read the
    first monthly part -
    'Bravo Dickens'.
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Wordsworth Classics Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Oliver
Twist By Charles Dickens
    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
    into he 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 Sykes,
    Nancy and 'the Artful
    Dodger'. For any reader
    wishing to delve into he
    works of the great
    Victorian literary
    colossus, Oliver Twist
    is, without, an
    essential title.
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Wordsworth Classics Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Dombey And
Son By Charles Dickens
    Mr Dombey is a man
    obsessed with his firm.
    His son is groomed from
    birth to take his place
    within it, despite his
    visionary eccentricity
    and declining health. But
    Dombey also has a
    daughter, whose
    unfailing love for her
    father goes unreturned.
    'Girls, ' said Mr Dombey,
    'have nothing to do with
    Dombey and Son.' When
    Walter Gay, a young
    clerk in her father's
    office, rescues her from
    a bewildering experience
    in the streets of London,
    his unforgettable
    friends believe he is
    well on his way to
    receiving her hand in
    marriage and inheriting
    the company. It is to be
    a very different type of
    story. Dombey and Son
    moved grown men to tears
    (Thackeray despaired of
    'writing against such
    power as this'), but its
    rich, comic characters
    and their joyful
    explosions of language
    draw laughter with
    equally unerring magic.
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Wordsworth Classics Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Wordsworth Classics Hard Times
By Charles Dickens
    Unusually for Dickens,
    Hard Times is set, not
    in London, but in the
    imaginary mid-Victorian
    Northern industrial town
    of Coketown with its
    blackened factories,
    downtrodden workers and
    polluted environment.
    This is the soulless
    domain of the strict
    utilitarian Thomas
    Gradgrind and the
    heartless factory owner
    Josiah Bounderby.
    However, human joy is
    not excluded thanks to
    'Mr Sleary's
    Horse-Riding' circus, a
    gin-soaked and hilarious
    troupe of open-hearted
    and affectionate people
    who act as an antidote to
    all the drudgery and
    misery endured by the
    ordinary citizens of
    Coketown. Macaulay
    attacked Hard Times for
    its 'sullen socialism',
    but 20th century critic
    such as George Bernard
    Shaw and F.R. Leavis have
    praised this book in the
    highest terms, while
    readers the world over
    have found inspiration
    and enjoyment from what
    is both Dickens' shortest
    completed novel and also
    one of his important
    statements on Victorian
    society.
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Bleak House - Wordsworth Classics
Bleak House - Wordsworth
Classics
    Details:
    Bleak House
    is one of Dickenss finest
    achievements,
    establishing his
    reputation
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Wordsworth Classics: The Pickwick Papers
Wordsworth Classics: The
Pickwick Papers
    The Pickwick Papers is
    Dickens' first novel and
    widely regarded as one of
    the major classics of
    comic writing in English.
    Originally serialised in
    monthly instalments, it
    quickly became a huge
    popular success with
    sales reaching 40, 000 by
    the final number. In the
    century and a half since
    its first appearance,
    the characters of Mr
    Pickwick, Sam Weller and
    the whole Pickwickian
    crew have entered the
    consciousness of all who
    love English literature
    in general, and the
    works of Dickens in
    particular.
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A Tale Of Two Cities - Wordsworth Classics
A Tale Of Two Cities -
Wordsworth Classics
    Details:
    This
    Wordsworth Edition
    includes an exclusive
    Introduction and Notes by
    Peter
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Complete Ghost Stories - Wordsworth Classics
Complete Ghost Stories -
Wordsworth Classics
    Details:
    Interest in
    supernatural phenomena
    was high during Charles
    Dickens lifetime. He
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