Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter merchant”
Skip side bar filters

  • Sojourner Truth

    Path to Glory (Ready-to-Read Level 3)

    by Peter Merchant ...
    Illustrated by Julia Denos ...
    Series Book 3 - Ready-to-Read Stories of Famous Americans
    Sojourner Truth had a tough childhood. She was born a slave, and many of the families she worked for treated her poorly. But when she was finally freed, Sojourner used her life to teach others about women's rights and the power of freedom. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Dickens and the Imagined Child

    by Peter Merchant, Catherine Waters ...
    The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    by Charles Dickens, Peter Merchant, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Principal Lecturer in English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle’s great ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

    by Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton ...
    “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby“ was Charles Dickens's third novel, published as a serial between 1838 and 1839. The story revolves around young Mr Nickleby, whose responsibility it is to support his sister and mother following the demise of his father. A classic example of Dickens's ironic social satire that will not disappoint fans of his much-loved work. Charles John Huffam ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Short Christmas Stories

    Short Christmas Stories from the Pen of Charles Dickens

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Herein are five short Christmas stories written by that master of English literature, Charles Dickens. The stories in this volume are:A CHRISTMAS TREEWHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDERTHE POOR RELATION’S STORYTHE CHILD’S STORYTHE SCHOOLBOY’S STORYNOBODY’S STORYSo, get yourself a hot Christmas toddy, find a comfy high-backed chair, sit back and enjoy these five, relatively unknown, Christmas ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    or Life among the Lowly

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    A MORAL BATTLE CRY FOR FREEDOM TO THE WORLDUncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, is an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. When Stowe visited President Lincoln at the White House in 1862, he reportedly said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prince and The Pauper (Illustrated)

    by Mark Twain ...
    The book tells the story of two young boys who were born on the same day and are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive, alcoholic father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Edward VI of England, son of Henry VIII of England. What happens when the two boys change clothes and places, and each one learns how the other half lives? Mark Twain’s satirical and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Metamorphosis Annotated

    by Franz Kafka ...
    The Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka best known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing ... Read more

    $4.69 USD

  • The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    ACT I. Algernon Moncrieff’s Flat in Half-Moon Street, W.ACT II. The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton.ACT III. Drawing-Room at the Manor House, Woolton.TIME: The Present. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Idiot (Translated by Eva M. Martin)

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    First published serially between 1868 and 1869, “The Idiot” is Dostoevsky’s most deeply personal work, which he remarked was his own personal favorite. It follows the journey of the title character, Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, who is actually intelligent but is cynically referred to as an “idiot” by his fellow characters for his moralistic purity. Prince Myshkin is a young man from an ancient ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Pickwick Papers Illustrated

    by Charles Dickens ...
    The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz) increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication ... Read more

    $2.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Utopia

    by Sir Thomas More ...
    Utopiaby Sir Thomas MoreThomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook