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  • The Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published along with short stories in his weekly serial “Master Humphrey’s Clock” from 1840 to 1841, “The Old Curiosity Shop” tells the tale of Nell Trent and her grandfather who both live in The Old Curiosity Shop in London. In an attempt to secure Nell’s financial future, her grandfather dabbles with gambling but ends up losing it all. Convinced that Nell’s grandfa...
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    33,66 €

  • David Copperfield
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Commonly hailed as his masterpiece and his own personal favourite, Dickens’s novel “David Copperfield” was first published as a serial in 1849–50 and as a book in 1850. The story revolves around the titular character and spans his growth from infancy to maturity, chronicling the people and places of his life as he develops as a person. A must-read for fans of Dickens’s work and...
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    32,52 €

  • A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    First published in 1859, “A Tale of Two Cities” is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, it tells the story of the 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris of French Doctor Manette, as well as his release and subsequent life in London with his daughter Lucie—whom he had previously not met. “A Tale of Tw...
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    25,93 €

  • Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens’s novel “Little Dorrit” tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from a 20-year absence. “Little Dorrit” heavily criticises societal shortcomings of the time, in particular the existence of de...
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    42,98 €

  • The Pickwick Papers
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s first novel, “The Pickwick Papers” revolves around the novel’s main character and founder of The Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick and his suggestion that he and other 'Pickwickians' travel to locations outside of London and report their findings. A sequence of loosely related adventures set between 1827–8, it became the first real publishing phenomenon and is r...
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    32,80 €

  • Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    The thirteenth and penultimate novel by Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” chronicles the education of Pip, an orphan living in mid-nineteenth century London. Including such themes as wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and triumph over evil, this novel represents a classic example of Dickensian literature not to be missed by lovers of his work. Charles John Huffam Dicke...
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    30,57 €

  • Hard Times
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    The tenth novel written by Dickens, “Hard Times” was first published in 1854. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial mill-town of Coketown and examines English society while satirising the social and economic conditions of the era. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic famous for having created some of the world’s most ...
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    27,50 €

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was originally published in 1870. When Dickens died in 1870, just six of the intended twelve chapters had been completed, with no remaining plan or indication to how the story should continue. Despite this, numerous other writers have tried to complete the novel. The story revolves around the titular char...
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    26,46 €

  • Bleak House
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853, “Bleak House” is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. The story centres around Esther Summerson, the novel’s heroine and omniscient narrator, and a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery which arises as a result of conflicting wills. Though brimming with arguably exaggerated satir...
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    32,54 €

  • Our Mutual Friend
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, “Our Mutual Friend” is the story of “Noddy” Boffin, a common clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman” after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, “Our Mutual Friend” is a masterpiece that explores the allure and curse of money while demonstrating all the themes the author is...
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    32,61 €

  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".   THIS book is meant to be a companion to “Orthodoxy,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essa...
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    10,12 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".   THIS book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essay...
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    10,18 €

  • Great Expectations
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    The thirteenth and penultimate novel by Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations' chronicles the education of Pip, an orphan living in mid-nineteenth century London. Including such themes as wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and triumph over evil, this novel represents a classic example of Dickensian literature not to be missed by lovers of his work. Charles John Huffam Dicke...
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    37,20 €

  • The Pickwick Papers
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’ss first novel, 'The Pickwick Papers' revolves around the novel’s main character and founder of The Pickwick Club, Samuel Pickwick and his suggestion that he and other 'Pickwickians' travel to locations outside of London and report their findings. A sequence of loosely related adventures set between 1827-8, it became the first real publishing phenomenon and is r...
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    41,76 €

  • The Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published along with short stories in his weekly serial 'Master Humphrey’s Clock' from 1840 to 1841, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' tells the tale of Nell Trent and her grandfather who both live in The Old Curiosity Shop in London. In an attempt to secure Nell’s financial future, her grandfather dabbles with gambling but ends up losing it all. Convinced that Nell’s grandfa...
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    39,16 €

  • Bleak House
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853, 'Bleak House' is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. The story centres around Esther Summerson, the novel’s heroine and omniscient narrator, and a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery which arises as a result of conflicting wills. Though brimming with arguably exaggerated satir...
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    43,79 €

  • Dombey and Son
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'Dombey and Son' is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial between 1846 and 1848. The story revolves around the owner of a shipping company who is disgruntled by his lack of a male heir, rejecting his daughter and her love until reconciliating shortly before her death. Including many common Dickensian themes such as betrayal, deceit, class, ...
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    44,83 €

  • David Copperfield
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Commonly hailed as his masterpiece and his own personal favourite, Dickens’s novel 'David Copperfield' was first published as a serial in 1849-50 and as a book in 1850. The story revolves around the titular character and spans his growth from infancy to maturity, chronicling the people and places of his life as he develops as a person. A must-read for fans of Dickens’s work and...
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    43,77 €

  • A Christmas Carol;With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’ classic festive tale takes place on a cold, lonely Christmas Eve. As night falls heavily on Victorian London, three mysterious ghosts haunt bitter old Ebenezer Scrooge.First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ well-known allegorical novella. Journey through Christmasses past, present, and future as Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning o...
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    32,78 €

  • The Christmas Books;A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, & The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    This gorgeous, festive collection features five Christmas stories by the marvellous Charles Dickens.Dickens’ Christmas books perfectly capture the spirit of Victorian Christmas and will transport you back into a warming world of festive cheer. His stories inspired many much-loved Christmas traditions, including various seasonal foods and drinks, family gatherings, dancing, and ...
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    35,95 €

  • Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens’s novel 'Little Dorrit' tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from a 20-year absence. 'Little Dorrit' heavily criticises societal shortcomings of the time, in particular the existence of de...
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    43,87 €

  • Our Mutual Friend
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last completed novel, 'Our Mutual Friend' is the story of 'Noddy' Boffin, a common clerk who becomes 'the Golden Dustman' after he inherits a dust-heap where the aristocracy throw their refuge. A brutal satire and social analysis, 'Our Mutual Friend' is a masterpiece that explores the allure and curse of money while demonstrating all the themes the author is...
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    43,87 €

  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' was Charles Dickens’s third novel, published as a serial between 1838 and 1839. The story revolves around young Mr Nickleby, whose responsibility it is to support his sister and mother following the demise of his father. A classic example of Dickens’s ironic social satire that will not disappoint fans of his much-loved work. Charle...
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    43,89 €

  • The Christmas Books;A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, & The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    This gorgeous, festive collection features five Christmas stories by the marvellous Charles Dickens.Dickens’ Christmas books perfectly capture the spirit of Victorian Christmas and will transport you back into a warming world of festive cheer. His stories inspired many much-loved Christmas traditions, including various seasonal foods and drinks, family gatherings, dancing, and ...
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    31,54 €

  • A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    First published in 1859, 'A Tale of Two Cities' is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, it tells the story of the 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris of French Doctor Manette, as well as his release and subsequent life in London with his daughter Lucie-whom he had previously not met. 'A Tale of Tw...
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    37,17 €

  • A Christmas Carol;With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’ classic festive tale takes place on a cold, lonely Christmas Eve. As night falls heavily on Victorian London, three mysterious ghosts haunt bitter old Ebenezer Scrooge.First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ well-known allegorical novella. Journey through Christmasses past, present, and future as Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning o...
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    17,99 €

  • El poeta y los lunáticos
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    El poeta y los lunáticos (1929), aunque se presenta como una novela, en realidad está concebida como una sucesión de episodios que se entrelazan, en los que un loco, el poeta y pintor Gabriel Gale, pone a prueba su increíble capacidad para captar la importancia de detalles que permanecen ocultos o apenas visibles a los ojos de los demás. Las técnicas deductivas que emplea el ex...
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    17,95 €

  • The Club of Queer Trades
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a 'queer trade'). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.A collection of related short stories ...
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    33,59 €

  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    23,73 €

  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    42,29 €


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