Dombey and Son I (Complete Works of Charles Dickens)
By: Charles Dickens
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
introduction by H.W. Garrod
Want to Read $ 8.95"Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts) must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves;"-Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son I (Complete Works of Charles Dickens)
"Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts) must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves;"-Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son I (Complete Works of Charles Dickens)
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4.03
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James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more
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"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
2. The Incredible Journey
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4.16
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, … read more
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3. Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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"Doctors is all swabs."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
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Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
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"I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - '…"-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
"Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in th…"-Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)
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Format: 284 pages, Paperback
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10. Dombey and Son I (Complete Works of Charles Dickens)
By: Charles Dickens
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
introduction by H.W. Garrod read more
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