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1) Bleak house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
29 sound discs (35 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Tale of Two Cities: The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have been cruelly abused by the Marquis de St. Evremonde and his brother. To ensure Dr. Manette's silence, the Marquis has him confined for eighteen years in the Bastille. The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens....
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1841, Victorian novelist Charles Dickens unfolds the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and moral young girl, who resides with her grandfather in London's The Old Curiosity Shop. When Grandfather looses all of his and Nell's money at gambling, the wicked Daniel Quilp evicts them both. A difficult and complex journey commences as Nell and Grandfather become beggars, and many ill-informed individuals pursue them, each with their...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
26 sound discs (32 hours.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman in debtors prison along with her father is helped by a kind man whom she marries after learning that she and her father are owed money.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
44 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five tales by Charles Dickens ("Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations," "A Tale of Two Cities," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol") retold in the form of comic strips.
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Publisher
Price Stern Sloan, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A re-imagining of the Dickens classic featuring the characters from "Adventure Time" takes place in the Land of Ooo, where a curmudgeonly Ice King is shown a miserable future that could possibly result if he doesn't change his ways.
