Alamosa Public Library

This beautifully illustrated book contains all of Charles Dickens' novels, and the novella A Christmas Carol, all skilfully retold for children. The retellings simplify the novels for a young modern reader, with quotations from the original text throughout. Wonderful illustrations by Maria Surducan show the characters and the smoggy London scenes.

Presents a cartoon version of Dickens's story of a poor orphan boy educated as a gentleman in Victorian England, and features essays on the author, background, themes, characters, and significance of the work.

Gary Colledge examines Dickens's novels, letters, and other writings to explore his Christian thought and worldview. Chapters examine Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what he wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. --from publisher description.

"November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends....

Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.

On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts who try to convince him to change his life.

Presents the life and novels of the nineteenth century British author, discussing some of his most famous works including "David Copperfield," "A Christmas Carol," and "Great Expectations."