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Author
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
xliii, 832 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After John Harmon is murdered on his way to marry Bella Wilfer and receive a large inheritance, his father's assistant, Nicodemus Boffin, becomes the new heir and adopts Bella, who evokes an uncommon interest from Boffin's assistant.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
132 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, connomly know as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843, the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits...
Author
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
525 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles and gets deeply into debt with the unscrupulous Quilp. When what little money they have is lost in a game of cards, Quilp claims The Old Curiosity Shop as payment for the loans.
20) Bleak house
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xlix, 891 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's underworld, and of the law's...
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