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The Pickwick Papers (Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens. 'The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master's orders'. Few first novels have created as much pop ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics
"The Pickwick Papers" is Charles Dickens' first novel, and his comic masterpiece. We are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickw ...Show more
The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens
6.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. D ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
3.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86 | Reading Level: very good
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more