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Stackars Oliver Twist! Det finns nog inte någon människa som vill byta plats med denna godhjärtade och tappre pojke, vars ensamstående mor dör i barnsäng så att han tvingas tillbringa sina första år på ett avskyvärt fattighus. Ensam och sårbar väx...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The Fr...

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Den föräldralöse pojken Pips liv tar en oväntad vändning när han under sin lärlingsperiod hos en smed får en stor summa pengar från en anonym välgörare. Från att ha haft minst sagt skrala framtidsutsikter öppnar sig möjligheten till ett liv i väls...

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På ett fattighus i England föddes Oliver Twist. Hans mamma dog efter födseln och ingen visste vem hon var. Oliver fick växa upp på barnhem där livet var hemskt. Han rymde till London där han hamnade i en ökänd tjuvliga, ledd av mästertjuven Fagin....

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One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a ...

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Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villai...

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Förutom att vara Charles Dickens överlägset mest berömda verk är det sannolikt världens mest lästa bok om julen. En julsaga [1843] berättar historien om Ebenezer Scrooge, en snål och elak kapitalist som genomgår en total omvändelse och blir en god...

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Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer ...

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Pip bor i en liten by i England. Han är en fattig pojke utan föräldrar. Meningen är att han ska bli smed och gifta sig med någon i byn. Men plötsligt blir Pip rik. En helt ny värld öppnar sig för honom. Han flyttar till London och lär känna den ol...

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»Dickens mest politiska bok. Språket är lysande« BTJ I Coketown har den industriella revolutionen redan börjat gå över i en kapitalistisk mardröm. Den förmögne Mr Gradgrind uppfostrar sina barn Tom och Louisa utifrån en krass utilitaristisk filoso...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none' Dark, mysterio...

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Charles Darnay gör allt för befria sig från sitt arv och sin historia. Men nu råkar han vara infödd i den styrande klassen i Frankrike. Vi befinner oss mitt i tiden för den franska revolutionen. Historien om två städer [ A Tale of Two Cities , 185...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else' Coketown is dominated...

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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydne...

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Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish ...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; 'that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma&apo...

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In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy with his wife, his five children and his young sister-in-law. Struck by the scenery and the rapid diorama of monuments...

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Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw 'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy In David Copperfield - the novel he described as h...

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Now a major BBC drama. One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to li...

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Den föräldralöse Oliver Twist, född på ett fattighus, är gatubarn i London. Där hamnar han i klorna på den ökände skurken Fagin, som lär upp pojkarna till skickliga ficktjuvar. Fagins gäng gör gatorna osäkra och de råkar ut för många äventyr. Men ...

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Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - celebrate the 180th anniversary of A Christmas Carol with this irresistible clothbound edition. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, mis...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presum...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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'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 Rea...

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Familjen Malderton vill inget hellre än att framstå som societetens högdjur och blir därför överförtjusta när den elegante, men mystiska Horatio Sparkins, uppvaktar deras ogifta dotter. En efter en försöker familjemedlemmarna imponera på nykomling...

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'The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive' WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its depiction o...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ...

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