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2) Hard times
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Gradgrind is the guiding luminary of the Coketown school, stern proponent of the Philosophy of Fact, whose ill-conceived idealism blinds him to the essential humanity of those around, with calamitous results. His daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage and falls prey to an idle seducer, and her brother Tom is ruined thanks to their father's pet theories. Meanwhile Sleary's circus offers a vision of escape and entertainment,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.9 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Description
"When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Wen xue plus volume 7
Publisher
Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan
Pub. Date
2003
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations, now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of his great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited his grandson, young Martin, the old fellow now trusts no one but Mary Graham, the pretty girl...
Author
Series
Segye munhak chŏnjip) volume 212-213
Publisher
Minŭmsa
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Korean
Description
A young man in 1820s London who expects to be reared by a rich patron and to marry a wealthy young woman finds his hopes dashed.
15) Tu tosi iyagi
Author
Series
K'ŭllaesik segye munhak k'ŏlleksyŏn volume 016
Publisher
Tŏ K'ŭllaesik
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Korean
Description
Young Englishman Sidney Carton gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves, in an epic novel set against the turbulent backdrop of eighteenth-century France.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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