Further Reading for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens by Jill Fenton https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337 en-us 2022-12-12 09:50:36 UTC 2025-10-20 14:26:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1647173538/f40b92c8cb4c26a2fb1184bb9612c597/charles_dickens.jpg Great Expectations jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417541984 A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.

Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'.
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]]> 2022-12-12 09:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417541984 Charles Dickens and Christmas jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417553055 This site has lots of interesting information about Dickens and Victorian society. ]]> 2022-12-12 10:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417553055 British Library: The Origins of A Christmas Carol jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417560066 2022-12-12 10:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417560066 A Christmas Carol In Context jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417561836 2022-12-12 10:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417561836 The History of Britain: The Definitive Visual Guide jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417591512 Look for the pages on the Victorian Era - Industry and Empire pp248 - 312]]> 2022-12-12 10:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417591512 Victorians jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417594560 A spectacular and engaging non-fiction Eyewitness guide to one of history's most fascinating periods, the Victorian era.

What did the Victorians invent? Was this a peaceful era? How many children did Queen Victoria have? Find out in Eyewitness Victorians and discover this peaceful and prosperous era which produced huge developments in technology and engineering, alongside voting reforms.

Eyewitness reference books are now more interactive and colourful, with new infographics, statistics, facts and timelines, plus a giant pull-out wall chart, you'll be an expert on the Victorian era in no time.]]> 2022-12-12 10:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417594560 Complete Ghost Stories jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417641110 Dickens' natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated "A Christmas Carol", the full range of his gothic talents can be seen.
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Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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]]> 2022-12-12 11:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417643904 Gothic Short Stories jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417645288 Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write 'Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the 'Age of Reason'. This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story.

Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting 'The Lame Priest' are 'lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before.

Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling - tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind - insanity, sexuality, death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present. In a lively, authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature.
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]]> 2022-12-12 11:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417645288 A Christmas Carol - A Graphic Novel jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417659429 A retelling of Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost story in a graphic novel format.

Ebenezer Scrooge has always hated Christmas, but this particular Eve, he's given another reason to be wary: the ghost of Jacob Marley comes to visit!

Clad in heavy chains and burdensome weights, Marley's ghost warns Scrooge that three spirits will visit him over the next three nights, each wit a ghastly story to share.

Will Scrooge's ghoulish experience teach him to embrace the spirit of Christmas, or will he say "bah humbug" for the last time?
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Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and he learns he will be visited by three spirits - Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come - who reveal to him his miserable existence, the opportunities he squandered in his youth, the current cruelties he visits upon those around him, and the fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.
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The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.

The Hound Of The Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.
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Sherlock Holmes must use all his powers of deduction if he is to solve the blood-curdling mystery of the terrifying Hound of the Baskervilles.

]]> 2022-12-12 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417678063 Wuthering Heights (abridged, dyslexia friendly) jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417683822 A retelling of Emily Bronte's classic gothic novel of doomed obsessive love, from Cathy's point of view.

The night that Heathcliff, an unkempt orphan, arrives at the Heights, Cathy's life will change for ever ... but theirs will not be a happy love story. From a harsh childhood to a foolish marriage, a troubled path of pain and punishment lies ahead. Yet no matter how they suffer, they cannot stay apart - for whatever souls are made of, Cathy's and Heathcliff's are the same. After all these years, will Cathy's ghost find the peace that life denied her?
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Perhaps everything is dead in it already; I don't know.'After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors.

She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter.

Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door.

Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined.

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Meet them all between the pages of this splendid book, which retells, in lively comic-strip style, five of Dickens's most popular stories: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol.
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]]> 2022-12-12 16:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2417998893 Oxford illustrated dictionary of 19th century language jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2418073094 This unique dictionary provides clear definitions and example sentences for 3000 interesting, peculiar and difficult words found in the 19th century fiction and non-fiction texts studied at secondary school. As well as help with unfamiliar usage of modern words and dialect, the dictionaryincludes letter opener facts, panels on the context of the period, and an illustrated section on themes such as transport, crime, fashion and childhood. By demystifying the language of the time and putting its use in context, it will help students to access, understand, and enjoy the novels, poems, newspaper, and magazine articles of the 19th century. ]]> 2022-12-12 16:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2418073094 Doll Bones by Holly Black jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2418903575 Twelve-year-old Zach is too old to play with toys. Or at least, that's what his father thinks. But even though he stops hanging out with Poppy and Alice, stops playing with his action figures, it's no good. There's one toy that still wants to play with him. A doll that's made from the bones of a dead girl. The only way to end the game is to lay the doll to rest for ever. It's time for a journey to Spring Grove cemetery. It's time to grow up.
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When did Africans first come to Britain?

Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings?

Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution?

These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history.]]> 2022-12-13 12:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/ecj2zt4dj87wefkh1670865337/wish/2419118300