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The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)

Published: 2008-07-15

Paperback: 786 pages

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In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write 'a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed 'papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still among Dicken's most popular works.

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The Pickwick Papers (Vintage Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 804 pages

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Dickens? first novel was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr. Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted, and full of memorab...

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The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2008-01-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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Charles Dickens "The Pickwick Papers" appeared originally in serial form between March 1836 and October 1837. It is a series of loosely related comical adventures of a cast of exaggerated personalities, the principal of which is Mr. Samuel Pickwick, a wealthy old gentleman and the founder of the Pickwick...

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay

Published: 1983-08-18

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Picnickers

by Floy Timmerman

Published: 2004-10-25

Paperback: 508 pages

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The Picnickers has ached to be written and in the nick-of-time, before the delicate nuances of memory fade into oblivion, it is. Descendants research Elizabeth, her one-time circus performer husband Tabor, and their children carving out a farm/ranch operation in the unbroken sod of Dakota. Following...

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Picture Maker

by Penina Spinaka

Published: 2003-06-02

Paperback: 544 pages

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A brilliant, powerful, historical saga - a grand epic by a prize-winning children's author. The world of 14th-century America is unknown to most readers and Penina Spinka's remarkable novel brings it triumphantly alive, from the tribal wars through to the Norse invasions and the fiercely resisted Christianity....

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2003

Paperback: 288 pages

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&&LDIV&&R&&LDIV&&R&&LI&&RThe Picture of Dorian Gray&&L/I&&R, by &&LSTRONG&&ROscar Wilde&&L/B&&R, is part of the &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics&&L/I&&R&&LI&&R &&L/I&&Rseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2012-03-05

Kindle Edition: 175 pages

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In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 1998-06-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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?Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides  ?Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ?rst...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2007-11-08

Paperback: 208 pages

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Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him...