Charles Dickens
75) Drood: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, "Drood" explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".
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.
78) Barnaby Rudge
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (approximately 7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barnaby Rudge, one of only two historical novels by Dickens, deals with the 'Popery' riots of 1780.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quite life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, the portly innocent embarks on a series of hilariously comic adventures. But can Pickwick retain his good will towards his fellow humans once he discovers the evils of the world?