This is a new title in the fantastic First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read. When young Dick Whittington hears that the streets of London are paved with gold he travels to the big city to seek his fortune. Things dont quite turn out as hed hoped but can a kind man & a cat solve all Dicks problems? It is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It is a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership." ...

A remarkably visual writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) emerged from a tradition where illustrations formed a significant part of both serial & book publishing. At the centenary of his birth Dickens & the Artists" explores the novelists artistic opinions & connections. His tastes are manifest in his novels his magazine Household Words & his journalism. Dickens engaged with the art of the Old Masters commenting forthrightly on the latest changes at the National Gallery & recording his visits to museums during his tours of Europe. As well as exploring Dickens own views the distinguished contributors reveal his influence on Victorian artists. He had long & close friendships with some of the leading artists of his time including Clarkson Stanfield Daniel Maclise Frank Stone & William Powell Frith. These & other artists depicted scenes from his novels or drew inspiration from his subjects & characterizations that continue to influence our image of Dickensian England today." ...

The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide & the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twists workhouse had been found & made public the news that both the workhouse & Dickenss old home were still standing near Londons Telecom Tower. This book by the historian who did the sleuthing behind these exciting new findings presents the story for the first time & shows that the two periods Dickens lived in that part of London
- before & after his fathers imprisonment in a debtors prison
- were profoundly important to his subsequent writing career.

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It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas & within these pages youll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops gleaming shop windows steaming bowls of punch plum puddings like speckled cannon balls sage & onion stuffing miracles magic charity & goodwill. This beautifully produced Vintage Classics" edition gathers together not only Dickens Christmas Books ("A Christmas Carol" " The Chimes" " The Battle of Life" " The Cricket on the Hearth" & " The Haunted Man") but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals " All the Year Round" & " Household Words" & a festive tale from " The Pickwick Papers". A must-have for Christmas this edition should be as necessary to your festivities as holly mistletoe & silver bells." ...

For fans new & old an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens the Great Inimitable created a riotous fictional world that still lives & breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being? For the bicentenary of Dickens birth Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens work excavating the hidden links between his characters themes & preoccupations & the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Covering America Bastards Childhood Christmas Empire Fog Larks London Madness Murder Orphans Pubs Punishment Smells Spontaneous Combustion & Zoo to name but a few
- John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to the great mans work. Excerpt: HANDS; Every Dickens novel has a master image. In Our Mutual Friend it is the river. In Bleak House it is the fog. In Little Dorrit it is the prison. In Great Expectations it is the h&. We often know much more about the principals hands in that novel than their faces. Who when the name Magwitch is mentioned does not think of those murderous large brown veinous hands? Jaggers? Ones nose twitches---scented soap (the lawyer like Pontius Pilate is forever washing his hands). Miss Havisham? Withered claws. So it goes on...
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Over 200 stunning archive photographs most of which have never been published before illustrate this mesmerising guide to Victorian ...

In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women young & old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham these girls & women speak to us today making us laugh & sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012 the bicentenary of Dickens birth with a one-woman show about Dickens' women & this book accompanies the show by building on the script & expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described & analysed so astutely in his novels. The countries to be visited are Australia New Zealand the USA & India. ' Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured ill-conditioned old lady of a stooping figure with a mottled face like bad marble a hook nose & a hard grey eye that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.' ...

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Half a century after their deaths the dictatorships of Stalin & Hitler still cast a long & terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive & lethal regimes in history murdering millions. They fought the largest & costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans & Russians enthusiastically supported them & the values they stood for. In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator & people so powerfully together? He paints a remarkable & vivid account of the different ways in which Stalin & Hitler rose to power & abused & dominated their people. It is a chilling analysis of powerful ideals corrupted by the vanity of ambitious & unscrupulous men. ...

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