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A Short History of Monks and Monasteries is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Alfred Wesley Wishart is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Alfred Wesley Wishart then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Visit a fabulous queen bee with a lovable loon and his loyal friend! Award-winning artist MK Grassi teams up with writer Seth Bernanke to present Goobee Viz Its Da Kwene. This sunny story with its gentle and rhythmic 'sound-aloud' text and bright illustrations is sure to delight young ears and eyes. Goobee Viz Its Da Kwene is written for toddlers and young children, but older ones -- and their parents -- will enjoy it too when they try to decipher the meaning of the Caribbean patois! Let Goobee help your child fall asleep with a smile on her face. Pick up your copy today. Press the Buy button at the top of the page.

Visit a coral reef with a lovable loon! Award-winning artist MK Grassi teams up with writer Seth Bernanke to present Goobee Goez Tu Da Refe. This sunny story with its gentle and rhythmic 'sound-aloud' text and bright illustrations is sure to delight young ears and eyes. Goobee Goez Tu Da Refe is written for toddlers and young children, but older ones -- and their parents -- will enjoy it too when they try to decipher the meaning of the Caribbean patois! Let Goobee help your child fall asleep with a smile on her face. Pick up your copy today. Press the Buy button at the top of the page.

The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and demonic money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. Yet alongside the story's pathos are some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself.This edition, based on the original text of 1841, contains an introduction by Norman Page discussing the various contrasting themes of the novel and its roots in Dickens's own personal tragedy, with prefaces to the 1841 and 1848 editions, a chronology, notes and original illustrations produced for the serial version.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.If you enjoyed The Old Curiosity Shop, you might like Dickens's Hard Times, also available in Penguin Classics.

Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens, was first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853, and is considered to be one of Dickens' finest novels, containing vast, complex and engaging arrays of characters and sub-plots. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include haughty Lady Honoria Dedlock, the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the realistic John Jarndyce, and the childish but highly disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the imprudent Richard Carstone.At the novel's centre is long-running litigation Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills. Dickens' satirization of the English judicial system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a litigant seeking to enforce copyright on his earlier books.Though lawyers and judges criticised Dickens's portrait of the English legal system as exaggerated, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as the legal system was reforming itself, and the need for further reform was being widely debated.[1] There has been some debate as to when Bleak House is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth set the action in 1827;[2] however, reference to preparation for the building of a railroad in chapter LV suggests a later date, in the 1830s at least.