[PDF READ ONLINE] A World Full of Dickens Stories: 8 best-loved classic tales retold for

2. A World Full of Dickens Stories: 8 best-loved classic tales retold for children (World Full of... Book 5)

3. Description Uncover the stories from one of the greatest-novelists of all time in this beautiful anthology of tales from Charles Dickens, rewritten in an accessible way for children. Oliver Twist Long ago, most towns had a workhouse where people in desperate need were given food and shelter. One night, a young woman was found lying in the street, weak with exhaustion. She was carried to the nearby workhouse where, a few hours later, she gave birth to a baby boy. The young mother held her tiny son in her arms and kissed him tenderly but she was so ill that she died before she could even give him a name. Nobody knew who she was or where she’d come from so Mr Bumble, who ran the workhouse, named the baby Oliver Twist. The Old Curiosity Shop Nell Trent was a good-hearted girl with a face as beautiful as an angel. Her parents died when she was young so she lived with her grandfather in his curiosity shop, which sold unusual objects and antiques. The old shop was crammed with clocks, candlesticks, paintings, furniture, ancient statues and even suits of armour. It was a gloomy sort of place for a young girl but Nell had a little bedroom of her own, which her grandfather had arranged with the prettiest things, and a singing bird in a cage to keep her company. A Tale of Two Cities My name is David Copperfield and this is the story of my life. My father died shortly before I was born, leaving my young mother to care for me, with the help of our faithful housekeeper Peggotty. I remember the early years of my childhood as a happy time on summer days I played in our country garden, on winter afternoons mother and I danced around the parlour and in the evenings I sat by the fire with Peggotty, reading to her while she mended stockings. A Christmas Carol When I was a small child I found my name, Philip Pirrip, difficult to say. All I could manage was ‘Pip’ and so that is what I came to be called. My parents died soon after I was born, leaving me to be raised by my sister who was twenty years older than me and was an impatient, hot-tempered woman. Luckily, whenever she was cross with me I could always count on the protection of her kind, gentle husband, my brother-in-law Joe, who was the village blacksmith. David Copperfield This story takes place in London and Paris, over two hundred and fifty years ago. It was the best of times but also the worst of times best of times for the rich who enjoyed the luxuries of wealth and power but worst of times for the poor who were unfairly treated, harshly punished and often went hungry. Many people were desperate for change. Great Expectations There never was a meaner, more miserly man than Ebenezer Scrooge. He never did a good deed for anyone nor had any friends, for his heart was as hard and cold as ice. One Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge sat working by candlelight in his office, adding up every penny that was owed to him. He didn’t care that the office was as freezing as the grey fog outside, or that his clerk, Bob Cratchit, was so badly paid he couldn’t afford a jacket to keep himself warm. Scrooge didn’t care about anything – except making money. Nicholas Nickleby Old Ralph Nickleby had a reputation for being a wealthy man, although few people knew how he actually made his fortune. One person who did was his watchful clerk, Newman Noggs. Noggs knew that his master charged a high cost for lending money to people in

4. need, often ruthlessly ruining their lives, and he hated him for it. But he was afraid of losing his job so he kept his knowledge to himself. Hard Times Mr Gradgrind was a man of facts. He firmly believed that facts which could be observed, measured and calculated were the only useful thing in life. In order to spread this idea, Mr Gradgrind set up a school in Coketown to teach children nothing but facts. At the school there was no art or music, nothing to stir up the imagination or any talk of feelings – all of that was forbidden.

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