Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent ... [... more]
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David Roberts
David Roberts is the illustrator of A House Called Awful End and the other books in the popular Eddie Dickens Trilogy, as well as the picture books Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story and Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale. He is also the ... [... more]
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the ... [... more]
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Martin Rayner
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy Book One: A House Called Awful End When both Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with ... [... more]
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether ... [... more]
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Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Dickens, The Dante Club, and The Poe Shadow, and is the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe's ... [... more]
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Jean Zallinger
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapter book adaptation of the Dickens classic. Fly ... [... more]
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Philip Ardagh
The Rise of the House of McNally: The Third Unlikely Exploit The Eddie Dickens Trilogy Book One: A House Called Awful End When both Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old ... [... more]
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Lester M. Schulman
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapter book adaptation of the Dickens ... [... more]
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Timothy Hallinan
Timothy Hallinan is the author of nine widely praised books, seven novels and a nonfiction work on Charles Dickens. His most recent book, A Nail Through the Heart, introduced Bangkok-based rough-travel writer Poke Rafferty, who is also the ... [... more]
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