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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$11.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', "A Tale of Two Cities" interweaves thrilling historical dr ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Puffin Classics) by Charles Dickens
$13.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: \
Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the same woman. In the midst of the French Revolution, Darnay, who has fled to London to escape the cruelty of the French nobility, must return to Paris to rescue his servant from death. But he endangers hi ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Everyone knows that Dicken's "Bleak House" is a literary classic. But how many know it was the first detective novel too? Introducing "Crime Classics", from Atlantic Books.Jarndyce versus Jarndyce - a dispute over a vast fortune left by an intestate miser - has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. ...Show more
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
$17.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening ...Show more
Christmas Classics by Christian Birmingham (Illustrator); Don Daily (Illustrator); Charles Dickens; E. T. A. Hoffmann; Clement Clarke Moore
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: RP Minis Ser.
This charming box set includes 3 classic Christmas 2-1/2 x 3" miniature books for this special slipcase edition: The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore, illustrated by Christian Birmingham The Nutcracker, from the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, illustrated by Don Daily A Christmas Carol, by Ch ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'. Dickens' epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
$29.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Of all Dickens's novels, DAVID COPPERFIELD most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful step ...Show more
Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll 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 and onion stuf ...Show more
Dombey and Son (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light'. "Dombey and Son" is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Hold your noisel' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. 'Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' Great Expectations opens with a terrifying encounter on the desolate Kent marches and goes on to trace its consequences for Pip, ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more