Description: Vintage Charles Dickens books. Lot of 3 books (4 stories). Great classics - great collection - great price! Book 1 - A Tale of Two Cities A tale of two cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens set in London and paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18 year long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Book 2 - The Pickwick PapersThe Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical. The novel's protagonist Samuel Pickwick Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. Their travels throughout the English countryside by coach provide the chief subject matter of the novel. A romantic misunderstanding with his landlady the widow Mrs. Bardell results in one of the most famous legal cases in English literature. Pickwick learns that the only way he can relieve the suffering of Mrs Bardell is by paying her costs in the action against himself, thus at the same time releasing himself from the prison. Book 3 - Edwin Drood & The Old Curiosity Shop The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Droods uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood's fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. Landless and Edwin Drood take an instant dislike to each other. Later Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances. The Old Curiosity Shop The events of the book seem to take place around 1825. In Chapter 29, Miss Monflathers refers to the death of Lord Byron, who died on 19, April 1824. When the inquest rules (incorrectly) that Quilp committed suicide, his corpse is ordered to be buried at a crossroads with a stake in his heart. Nell's grandfather, after his breakdown, fears that he shall be sent to a madhouse, and there chained to a wall and whipped; these practices went out of use after about 1830. I pack carefully and ship daily! Thank you!
Price: 30 USD
Location: Colwich, Kansas
End Time: 2025-02-04T14:31:19.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: ClearType Edition
Region: North America
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Books, Inc.
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Classics
Modified Item: No
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original