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The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
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The sound of Little Nell clattering hurriedly over cobblestones immediately sets the stage by bringing to mind the narrow and dangerous streets of Victorian London. No fewer than 20 performers are called upon to conjure up the Dickensian world of wanderers, ne'er-do-wells, con artists, and kind Samaritans--and each performance is excellent. Tom Courten... »
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A Scanner Darkly
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Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whos... »
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Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)
I have always loved Dickens, but hadn't read any in a while, and never might have read "Little Dorrit" if I hadn't recently read a biography of Dorothy Da... »
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Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics)
Greed and selfishness abound in this long novel originally brought to the 1843-44 reading public through twenty monthly installments. The book did not s... »
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Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics)
Nicholas Nickleby might not be the best book ever written (certainly some other book wins that prize (and it is likely that that book is widely available)... »
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