Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in magazines. This collection provides an invaluable insight into the author's storytelling apprenticeship and his steady growth towards excellence. As well as offering a further dimension to the world of his better-known masterpieces, these tales from 'The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton' to the celebrated 'The Signalman' illustrate Dickens's well-known love of a spooky story told around a blazing fire, the pastime of a bygone age to be...
Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others were published in mag...
Charles Dickens, Stephen L. Stern, Douglas A. Sirois
From Stephen L. Stern, writer of Markosia's masterful Beowulf Graphic Novel, and acclaimed artist Douglas A. Sirois, comes this superb full-color adaptation of Dickens' timeless classic. Sacrificing none of Dickens' rich language and filled with cinematic artwork, A Christmas Carol is a wonderfully faithful adaptation of the quintessential Christmas story.
From Stephen L. Stern, writer of Markosia's masterful Beowulf Graphic Novel, and acclaimed artist Douglas A. Sirois, comes this superb full-color adap...
To the Young Reader: Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other author of that period. In those wonderful writings are found many pictures of child-life connected with the plan of the novels or stories. These child-stories have been taken out of their connections and are told by themselves in...
To the Young Reader: Charles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part ...
Three Ghost Stories is a collection of three stories that are Gothic classics. Included are: The Signal Man, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder.
Three Ghost Stories is a collection of three stories that are Gothic classics. Included are: The Signal Man, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder.
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Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Chapter I: The One Thing Needful "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. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir " The scene was a plain, bare,...
Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Chapter I: The One Thing ...
Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family
Our hero Nickleby confronts a large cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures up and down the country. Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creators energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society.
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY by Charles Dickens
Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Car...
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the fictional town of Mudfog - such as the delusions of grandeur of its mayor Nicholas Tulrumble and his disastrous attempts at putting on a public show - and the meetings of its Society for the Advancement of Everything, during which the town is overrun by illustrious scientists and professors conducting ostensibly pointless research.
Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as...
The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley's Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the local politics of the...
