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Summary: The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of 'A Christmas Carol,' a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN

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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAN

Tomalin, Claire.

Summary: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DICKENS, CHARLES TOM

Pearl, Matthew.

Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEA

Hornby, Nick

Summary: "From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HOR

Pollack, Pam

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIC

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 921 DIC

Summary: In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Great 2005

Summary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAR

Summary: The ramblings, adventures and travels of the members of the Pickwick Club as they wander about the countryside, getting into trouble wherever possible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pickwick 2006

Summary: In the streets of New York City, Oliver, an orphaned kitten, is befriended by Dodger, a carefree mutt, and his band of streetwise dogs. Together they try to avoid the evil Sykes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV OLI

Flanders, Judith.

Summary: "Expert Victorian-era historian Judith Flanders explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dicken's novels, bringing life on the streets of London to vivid, fascinating life. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capitol grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 FLA

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: A ghost tale for Christmas time: Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSB

Wilson, A. N.

Summary: "Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died--an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DICKENS, CHARLES WIL

Summary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLA

Summary: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Hard 2005

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 44

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OSB

Stanley, Diane.

Summary: Follows the life and writing career of the popular nineteenth-century English novelist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1993

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DIC

Summary: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Domby 2006

Summary: Who will inherit the riches of wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit? The only person he trusts is his companion and nurse, the young orphan Mary Graham, but she is employed on the understanding that she will not inherit a penny. He has disinherited his grandson, Young Martin, suspicious of the motives of the young man's love for Mary. With such a fortune at stake, the rest of the family closes in like...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Martin 2005

Keneally, Thomas

Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Mullan, John

Summary: "In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius, from his delight in clichaes to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality, and brilliance on full display"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 MUL

Silva, Samantha

Summary: "Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIL

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Summary: Set in 19th century England, this story follows young David Copperfield's difficult journey from boy to man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAV

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series David 2006

Klimo, Kate

Summary: "Charles Dickens' dog Timber tells the story of his life with the great writer."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017

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Milbourne, Anna

Summary: "From innocent orphan Oliver and the cheeky Artful Dodger, to creepy bride Miss Havisham and old miser Scrooge-Dicken's characters are famous throughout the world. These brilliant adaptations of all his novels, with illustrations introducing the characters, make the perfect introduction to Dickens." --Page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIL

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