Charles Dickens
Author
Language
English
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Read-Alikes for Demon Copperhead
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
Read-Alikes for Demon Copperhead
Description
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Publisher
Pavilion Children's
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Quentin Blake turns his brilliant artistic talents to Dickens' much-loved Christmas story. A beautiful luxury edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his fellow man. Quentin Blake's colourful illustrations...
13) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Colección "Libros de bolsillo Z" volume nums. 186-187
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
Español
16) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An adaption of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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Description
A sequel to "A Christmas Carol" set twenty years after Scrooge's famous reformation finds him teaming up with a returning cast of ghosts to help the restless spirit of Jacob Marley make amends to victimized associates in order to find peace.
19) Marley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
From the acclaimed author of Finn comes a masterful re-imagining of Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol, in this darkly entertaining and moving exploration of the twisted relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.
Marley and Scrooge. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent Scrooge into the gentle art of extortion....
20) Twist
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home, and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art collector Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realizes that he finally has...
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