Charles Dickens
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CQ 397
Pub. Date
1962.
Physical Desc
xi, 880 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
65) Christmas books
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[1938]
Physical Desc
764 pages
Language
English
Description
The Pickwick Papers explores the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Can a grouch find reason to enjoy the holiday season? It's Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, and Oscar has just received a ghost-o-gram. He will be visited by three ghosts tonight: a famous British grouch, a talking Christmas tree, and a robot.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 635 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (11 pages : 18 cm) and memorabilia collection (23 items) in envelope (13 x 20 cm) inside DVD container cover.
Language
English
Description
Great Expectations: "Nothing is quite as it seems for young orphan Pip in this superb retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age novel..." -cover.
Jane Eyre: "When a lonely young governess falls in love with the father of her new student at Thornfield Hall, things finally appear to be going well for Jane Eyre. However, Jane and Mr. Rochester are haunted by the mysteries of their past lives..." -cover.
Wuthering Heights: "The fiery romance of Heathcliff...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts. Anniversary edition.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christopher & Holly: the bears who saved Christmas: Christopher and Holly are two adorable teddy bears who set out on a heroic adventure to save Christmas for two children stranded in a deserted cabin with their parents on Christmas Eve. Nick & Noel: A touching Christmas story about the adventures of Nick the dog and Noel the cat as they embark on a series of adventures to make a little girl's Christmas wish come true. Dot & Spot's magical Christmas...
76) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Director Roman Polanski offers a slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Pip, an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice inherits a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, his future seems promising. But a bitter heiress is intent on preventing Pip from finding true love.
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 190 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until som e last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. As the characters are swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution, that long-ago promise...
