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181) Murder in the mist
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Wilkie Collins is looking forward to spending Christmas at Gads Hill, Charles Dickens' Kentish country home, but the festivities are cut short when a body is found on the snowy marshland. Timmy O'Connor was invited to the gathering with his four nephews after a chance encounter with Dickens, but is now dead. Dickens is convinced the murderer is one of the convicts from a nearby prison ship, but Collins is not so sure. Who was this mysterious and...
182) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
184) A tale of two cities
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The Charles Dickens tale of love and tumult during the French Revolution. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
186) Great expectations
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pip's just your average boy. He has no parents, lives with his scary sister and once met an escaped criminal on Christmas Eve. Totally normal. And things get even weirder when a mysterious stranger starts paying him loads of money. Sure, Pip's loving his new life of luxury, but will he ever find out who's paying the bills, and what they want from him in return?
Author
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Charles Dickens, struggling writer, is haunted by the ghost of his lost sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth. In his darkest Christmastime, she comes to him in visions to inspire his writing, to make him reflect on the pivotal moments of his life... and to spark the idea for one of the greatest Christmas stories of all time. Bonus, includes the original Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol." --
188) The Invisible woman
Publisher
Westend Films ; Magnolia Mae Films,2012
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Nelly, a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century literary master's relationships with definitive women in his life discusses the mysterious Ellen Ternan; creative muse Maria Beadnell; and his beloved late sister-in-law, Mary Scott Hogarth.
191) Winter of despair
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. But their blood truly runs cold when their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper window of a house. They soon learn the dead man, his neck strangely wrapped in chains, is Jacob Harley, the business partner of the resident of the house, an unpleasant codger who owns a counting house, one Emmanuel Screws. Ever the...
194) Grave expectations
Author
Series
Dickens of a crime volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters, they find her decomposing corpse propped up, adorned in a faded gown that looks like it could have been her wedding dress, had she been married....
197) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Classics illustrated deluxe volume 8
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
198) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Dickens' story of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
199) Great expectations
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A manga adaptation of the classic literary novel by Charles Dickens, a rags-to-riches tale of Pip, a young orphan and the transformation he endures through the circumstances of his life.
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