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By Smiley, Janec2002., Viking Call No: 823.8 S641c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Penguin lives series
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2011., Penguin Press Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description.
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1990., Sinclair-Stevenson Limited Call No: Bio D548a Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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Juvenile Call No: Fic Pra Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: "In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeney Todd"--.
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-- Charles Dickens Dombey and Son.[2006]., General, BBC VIdeo ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Dombey Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
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2005, p1981., General, Warner Home Video : BBC Video Limited Call No: DVD Fic Great Exp (1981) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
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2012., General, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Bio D548g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created--from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield--was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens's sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Each of these lives is fascinating on its own; together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.--From publisher description.
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2005., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Hard Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
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c2009., Random House Call No: MYS Fic Pea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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-- Voyage of the Unicorn [DVD] (2001). Directed by Philip Spink.2005., Platinum Disc Call No: DVD Fic Old Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In payment for a gambling debt, Little Nell and her grandfather are evicted from their curiosity shop by the evil Daniel Quilp and wander about the country looking for a new home.
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2005., General, BBC Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Our Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: BBC classics.Summary Note: The tale of two turbulent love affairs plays out amidst a tangled web of wealth, corruption, passion and betrayal in 1860's London.
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-- Charles Dickens The Pickwick papers.2006., General, BBC VIdeo ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Pickwick Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The ramblings, adventures and travels of the members of the Pickwick Club as they wander about the countryside, getting into trouble wherever possible.
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c2005., Goose Lane Call No: Fic Tho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in mid-19th century England. Harriet Coram, raised in a home for abandoned children, becomes a maid in the home of Charles Dickens. 30 years later, her life is disrupted by a woman from her past. A clever tale of stolen identities.