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Sikes and Nancy

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Sikes and Nancy written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 14, 1868 Charles Dickens organized a special reading to a select audience to get their opinion on whether or not Sikes and Nancy, the telling of the horrific murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist, should be added to his repertoire of public readings of his works. William Charles Kent (1823-1902), editor, journalist, and Dickens' friend, was among those chosen to witness this test reading. Here he gives an account of the event. Most in the audience, Kent among them, felt the reading was sensational and should be added. A few worried about possible hysteria in the audience and the reading's effect on Dickens' already frail health. Dickens read the account with such passion that his pulse soared during its performance. Dickens added Sikes and Nancy to his farewell reading tour of Britain.

Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920262
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive' WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction of a dark criminal underworld peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic romance, the Newgate novel and popular melodrama, Oliver Twist created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery. Edited with an Introduction and notes by PHILIP HORNE

Teacher, Teacher!

Author : Jack Sheffield
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409082369
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Teacher, Teacher! written by Jack Sheffield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, and a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. And then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster... Warm, funny and nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.

Oliver Twist Illustrated

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

The Readings of Charles Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Readings of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oliver Twist

Author : Georgina Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578400157
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Georgina Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orphaned Oliver Twist falls in with thieves and pickpockets in Charles Dickens' novel of adventure, escapades, and some of the most beloved characters in literature. Full color illustrations.

Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492205852
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Boots,' an otherwise unnamed character in Dickens's Christmas story, is the main character in "Boots at The Holly Tree Inn", who, in his own vernacular tells the story of two children. The point at which any true appreciation of the short story begins is the clear perception that it is a distinct form of art; and the reason why the older novelists so rarely succeeded in the short story is that they did not apprehend this. If we bear in mind the three principles, that the short story must be complete in itself, that it is short because it cannot be long, and that it consists of a single incident, we can readily apply a critical test, which, while not infallible, nevertheless affords a valuable means of discrimination. Let us take the test of completeness and apply it to Dickens's exquisite story of "Boots at the Holly Tree Inn." The story as Dickens writes it covers a great variety of themes. We have an embittered lover, a detailed description of a mail-coach journey, of a snow-storm, of an inn, of his own ennui, of his own curious imaginings, elaborated in thousands of words, before he reaches the real story which the Boots at the Holly Tree has to tell. Finally, the icing on the cake... this story is fully illustrated by none other than, J. C. Beard, a revered master of watercolor, gouache and ink and with the same excitement that Charles Dickens would have had for this unique experience, we present the story to you.

Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922919991
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782491251819
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988.

Sikes and Nancy and Other Public Readings

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192816177
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Sikes and Nancy and Other Public Readings written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Dickens' public readings includes "A Christmas Carol," "The Chimes," "The Story of Little Dombey," "The Poor Traveller," "Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn," "Mrs. Gamp," "Bardell and Pickwick," "David Copperfield," "Nicholas Nickleby at the Yorkshire School," "Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party," "Doctor Marigold," and "Sikes and Nancy."

Long Lost

Author : Jacqueline West
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062691775
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Long Lost written by Jacqueline West and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perfect to be read late into the night.”—Stefan Bachmann, internationally bestselling author of The Peculiar “A spooky sisterhood mystery that is sure to be a hit with readers.”—School Library Journal (starred review) “Grab a flashlight and stay up late with this one.”—Kirkus Reviews Once there were two sisters who did everything together. But only one of them disappeared. New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline West’s Long Lost is an atmospheric, eerie mystery brimming with suspense. Fans of Katherine Arden’s Small Spaces and Victoria Schwab’s City of Ghosts series will lose themselves in this mesmerizing and century-spanning tale. Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to a new town to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated by a long-dead heiress. And there she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance. Soon Fiona begins to notice strange similarities that blur the lines between the novel and her new town. With a little help from a few odd Lost Lake locals, Fiona uncovers the book’s strange history. Lost Lake is a town of restless spirits, and Fiona will learn that both help and danger come from unexpected places—maybe even from the sister she thinks doesn’t care about her anymore. New York Times–bestselling and acclaimed author Jacqueline West weaves a heart-pounding, intense, and imaginative mystery that builds anticipation on every page, while centering on the strong and often tumultuous bond between sisters. Laced with suspense, Long Lost will fascinate readers of Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Secret Keepers and fans of ghost stories.

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

Author : Ms Beryl Gray
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472435311
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination written by Ms Beryl Gray and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city, so too did they populate his fiction, journalism, and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens’s relationship to canines, Beryl Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens’s vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickens’s friends, family, and fellow writers, and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the periodical press, newspapers, and institutional archives. Integral to her study is her analysis of Dickens’s texts in relationship to their illustrations by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne and to portraiture by late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin Landseer. The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination will not only enlighten readers and critics of Dickens and those interested in his life but will serve as an important resource for scholars interested in the Victorian city, the treatment of animals in literature and art, and attitudes towards animals in nineteenth-century Britain.

Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction

Author : Michaela Mahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135123586
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction written by Michaela Mahlberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens’s novels, the book proposes a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns. The analysis begins with clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, as pointers to local textual functions. Combining quantitative findings with qualitative analyses, the book takes a fresh view on Dickens’s techniques of characterisation, the literary presentation of body language and speech in fiction. The approach brings together corpus linguistics, literary stylistics and Dickens criticism. It thus contributes to bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies and will be a useful resource for both researchers and students of English language and literature.

Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1607541521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 19th century London, the trusting orphan Oliver escapes factory work, only to fall in with a gang of nefarious thieves.

The Dickensian

Author : Bertram Waldrom Matz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Dickensian written by Bertram Waldrom Matz and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Practice and Representation of Reading in England

Author : James Raven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521023238
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Practice and Representation of Reading in England written by James Raven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fourteen essays highlights both the singularity of personal reading experiences and the cultural conventions involved in reading and its perception.

Oliver

Author : Alfred Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780634024146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Oliver written by Alfred Reed and published by . This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Richmond Music Instrumental). One of Broadway's beloved stage productions is now available from Hal Leonard with this classic arrangement from veteran writer Alfred Reed. With such memorable songs like Oliver, Where Is Love, I'd Do Anything, As Long As He Needs Me, and Consider Yourself, this concert arrangement should be a part of every orchestra's library.