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Published in 1838, Oliver Twist marks Charles Dickens first foray into a realistic portrayal of the grim realities of Londons underbelly and its inhabitants. Through vivid characters and settings, Dickens powerfully illustrates his belief that poverty can lead to crime. The story follows young Oliver, a parish orphan, who has spent his entire short life in a dilapidated orphanage, where food is scarce and kindness is even scarcer. When Oliver bravely asks for more gruel after a meager meal, he shocks the parish board and is quickly sold to a local undertaker for a mere five pounds. This act of...

Will Darling is all right. His business is doing well, and so is his illicit relationship with Kim Secretan - disgraced aristocrat, ex-spy, amateur book-dealer. It's starting to feel like he's got his life under control.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Set in the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, this is Charles Dickens' final, unfinished mystery novel, left incomplete at his death in 1870. The story follows John Jasper, the troubled choir master who is secretly addicted to opium, his young nephew...

High in the wild Asturian mountains, a remote calamine mine tests more than iron and stone. Sent to recover his health—and branded an “idle young dog”—young Jim Cayley battles a stubborn stutter and a worse reputation. When Little Toro, a sharp-eyed Cuban orphan, whispers of sabotage...

With over twenty plus years in addiction recovery, A lot of fun, interesting, and heartfelt experiences told as stories.

Colonel Jake Thomas has found himself at the edge of disaster once more and managed to pull back from the brink. Defeating the alien armada without the use of a recreated doomsday device was a great victory. However, it was a victory tainted by the realization that a new NeHaw leadership was in...

La comunicación es un superpoder que puede ser entrenado y los mejores comunicadores saben distinguir y emplear los tres tipos de conversaciones que existen—la práctica, la emocional y la social—para conectar con las personas. En este libro aprenderás por qué hay gente capaz de hacerse oír y de escuchar a los demás con tanta claridad. Y podrás ser uno de ellos.

When crusading lawyer Vikram Pandey sets out in search of a missing youth, his investigations take him to Holywell Street, London's most notorious address. He expects to find a disgraceful array of sordid bookshops. He doesn't expect one of them to be run by the long-lost friend whose disappearance and presumed death he's been mourning for 13 years. Gil Lawless became a Holywell Street bookseller for his own reasons, and he's damned if he's going to apologize or listen to moralizing from anyone. 

Abandoned by their father for the gold rush, Gentry and her siblings labor to survive alone in the inhospitable West. When bizarre natural disasters begin wreaking havoc on the land, Gentry discovers a world of magic. Desperate for help, she accepts aid from a mysterious stranger. Winn not only sees the magic, but controls its hunger by feeding it gold - the very thing Gentry's father left to acquire. But the earth's unrest only grows worse, and Gentry's fear leads her to a terrible choice: marry a wealthy man she does not love or trust in Winn's unpredictable power to save her family.

The Charles Dickens Non-Fiction Collection contains all of Charles Dickens' major published works of non-fiction. Although lesser known than the novels for which he is remembered, Dickens' eye for detail and character observation is seen just as clearly in his travelogues, essays, and letters, giving us an insight into Dickens and 1800s London, America, and Europe.

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex...

Step into the gritty streets of Victorian London in this timeless classic. Oliver Twist is a compelling tale of resilience, courage, and the enduring fight for justice. Follow young Oliver, an orphan navigating a harsh world of poverty, crime, and betrayal, as he seeks love and a sense of belonging.

The Pickwick Papers, Dickens' first novel, is a glorious romp through the pre-Reform Bill England of 1827. Traveling by stage-coach, the innocent but well-intentioned Pickwick and his equally naive friends, all in search of "interesting scenes and characters," are repeatedly saved from disaster by the resourceful and quick-witted Sam Weller.

Pell is an engineer and digger by trade—unearthing and repairing the fascinating artifacts left behind by the mysterious Ancients who once inhabited the sunbaked planet of Tampere. She’ll do anything to help the people of her village survive and to better understand the secrets of what came before.

Oliver Twist, Dickens' second novel, is a thrilling study of childhood innocence thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice, the Artful Dodger, and their gang of child thieves. Who will help the orphaned Oliver to escape from their clutches and discover his true history?

Set in London's backstreet slums, Oliver Twist is the story of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a den of thieves, where some of Dickens' most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger; the barbarous bully Bill Sikes; and the terrible Fagin, whose knavery threatens to send them all to the gallows. This was the first of Dickens' works to depict realistically London's impoverished underworld, and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime.

Questo libro rivela una magia mentale che assicura il successo, che garantisce assolutamente una maggiore realizzazione, sia che la vostra professione sia nelle arti o negli affari, nella scienza o nelle vendite, nello sport, nella guerra o nella politica. Qui imparerete il modo segreto in cui la vostra mente è legata alla fonte di tutto il potere; imparerete come siete capaci di diventare qualsiasi cosa e fare qualsiasi cosa possiate visualizzare.

In the polluted and poverty-ridden Coketown, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind endure a cold and loveless childhood at the hands of their self-satisfied and unimaginative father Thomas. Starved of affection, Louisa is forced into a miserable marriage with the self-made industrialist Josiah Bounderby...

A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this “fantastically hopped-up thriller [with] a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock” (Entertainment Weekly, Editor’s Choice). “Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant.”—Harlan Coben Now a major motion picture...