Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, house, bleak
Number of Pages: 1088
Published: 2003-04-29
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0141439726
ISBN-13: 9780141439723

Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens’s tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London and the maze of the Inns of Court to the peaceful countryside of England. Likewise, the characters run from murderous villains to virtuous girls, from a devoted lover to a "fallen woman," all of whom are affected by a legal suit in which there will, of course, be no winner. The first-person narrative related by the orphan Esther is par

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: Dover Publicatio
Keywords: twist, oliver
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 2002-12-30
List price: $3.50
ISBN-10: 0486424537
ISBN-13: 9780486424538

Oliver Twist’s famous cry of the heart--"Please, sir, I want some more"--has resounded with generations of readers of all ages. The author poured his own youthful experience of Victorian London’s unspeakable squalor into this realistic depiction of a spirited young innocent’s unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features some of Dickens’ most memorable characters, including the vicious Bill Sikes, gentle Nancy, and the juvenile pickpocket known as the Artful Dodger.

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Keywords: library, everyman, cities, tale
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1993-02-23
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0679420738
ISBN-13: 9780679420736

Introduction by Simon Schama

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, house, bleak
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $41.75
ISBN-10: 0559069871
ISBN-13: 9780559069871

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. Charles John H

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: shop, curiosity, old
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $36.75
ISBN-10: 1103190466
ISBN-13: 9781103190461

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: times, hard
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1420931504
ISBN-13: 9781420931501

"Hard Times" is the 1854 novel by Charles Dickens that sought to highlight the social and economic divide that was growing between capitalistic mill owners and workers during the Victorian era of Great Britain. Originally published in serial form in Dickens’s own periodical journal "Household Words", "Hard Times" is unique in that it is not set in London, like many of his works, but in the fictitious Victorian town of Coketown. A critical examination of the poor working conditions in many English factory towns of the time as well as the changing nature of the aristocracy and the working-

Author: Charles Dicke
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: volume, house, bleak
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0559069790
ISBN-13: 9780559069796

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. Charles John H