Author: Kenneth L. Chumbley
Publisher: Adelaide Books
ISBN: 9781950437429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Charles Dickens wrote four Christmas ghost stories, of which the first was "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (ch. 29 in The Pickwick Papers). A Christmas Carol, the second, largely followed its outline. In Goblins, a surly, malicious sexton (gravedigger) is kidnapped by goblins on Christmas Eve. They take him to their underground cavern and through various scenes shown him, redeem him from his evil ways.Utilizing character names from other Dickens' stories, Kenneth Chumbley and Tonya Clarkson McCain used the outline of the original Goblins to create a 10,000 word novella, The Goblins and a Gravedigger. The drama involves child abuse (a classic Dickens' theme) and is a darker story than Carol. In writing fantasy, any mythical character can be used (elves, dwarfs, goblins, etc.), but the story must be real and human. This is exactly what authors tried to do in their adaptation.
The Goblins and the Gravedigger
Author: Kenneth L. Chumbley
Publisher: Adelaide Books
ISBN: 9781950437429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Charles Dickens wrote four Christmas ghost stories, of which the first was "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (ch. 29 in The Pickwick Papers). A Christmas Carol, the second, largely followed its outline. In Goblins, a surly, malicious sexton (gravedigger) is kidnapped by goblins on Christmas Eve. They take him to their underground cavern and through various scenes shown him, redeem him from his evil ways.Utilizing character names from other Dickens' stories, Kenneth Chumbley and Tonya Clarkson McCain used the outline of the original Goblins to create a 10,000 word novella, The Goblins and a Gravedigger. The drama involves child abuse (a classic Dickens' theme) and is a darker story than Carol. In writing fantasy, any mythical character can be used (elves, dwarfs, goblins, etc.), but the story must be real and human. This is exactly what authors tried to do in their adaptation.
Publisher: Adelaide Books
ISBN: 9781950437429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Charles Dickens wrote four Christmas ghost stories, of which the first was "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (ch. 29 in The Pickwick Papers). A Christmas Carol, the second, largely followed its outline. In Goblins, a surly, malicious sexton (gravedigger) is kidnapped by goblins on Christmas Eve. They take him to their underground cavern and through various scenes shown him, redeem him from his evil ways.Utilizing character names from other Dickens' stories, Kenneth Chumbley and Tonya Clarkson McCain used the outline of the original Goblins to create a 10,000 word novella, The Goblins and a Gravedigger. The drama involves child abuse (a classic Dickens' theme) and is a darker story than Carol. In writing fantasy, any mythical character can be used (elves, dwarfs, goblins, etc.), but the story must be real and human. This is exactly what authors tried to do in their adaptation.
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522738695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Charles Dickens short story that was actually the inspiration for "A Christmas Carol." In this story, a gravedigger that hates Christmas gets kidnapped by goblins while digging a grave and then they help him get into the Christmas spirit. The beginning of this version has a biography of the author.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522738695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A Charles Dickens short story that was actually the inspiration for "A Christmas Carol." In this story, a gravedigger that hates Christmas gets kidnapped by goblins while digging a grave and then they help him get into the Christmas spirit. The beginning of this version has a biography of the author.
Goblins in the Castle
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671727117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When William's new friend, Igor, accidentally releases a horde of goblins, the two must journey to Goblin Land to undo the damage.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671727117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When William's new friend, Igor, accidentally releases a horde of goblins, the two must journey to Goblin Land to undo the damage.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Celebrate Twenty Years of Magic!
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152046149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Celebrate Twenty Years of Magic!
Oddest of All
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152058081
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of nine short stories featuring ghosts, half-humans, unicorns, and other unusual creatures.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152058081
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A collection of nine short stories featuring ghosts, half-humans, unicorns, and other unusual creatures.
The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Pickwick Papers
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Goblins on the Prowl
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481441280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The stone toad is back! From the author of Diary of a Mad Brownie, this follow-up to the bestselling Goblins in the Castle blends laugh-out-loud humor with fantasy and edge-of-your-seat adventure. In the year since William and Fauna freed the goblins from imprisonment in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, peace has reigned over both the human and goblin kingdoms. Then one cold night William receives a strange book from an unknown visitor, a book that leads him and Fauna to the mysterious stone toad that sits in the castle’s Great Hall. When an accidental spell brings the stone creature to life, the giant toad hops away—with William between its jaws! Fauna is no match for a ten-foot-tall frog made of rock, but she has magic—and a good amount of grit—on her side. Determined to save her friend, Fauna ventures forth on a journey through dangerous lands filled with fearsome giants, talking bears, and packs of rogue goblins. And in order to save William and reveal the mystery behind the stone toad, Fauna might have to divulge a secret that could turn her friends against her forever.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481441280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The stone toad is back! From the author of Diary of a Mad Brownie, this follow-up to the bestselling Goblins in the Castle blends laugh-out-loud humor with fantasy and edge-of-your-seat adventure. In the year since William and Fauna freed the goblins from imprisonment in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, peace has reigned over both the human and goblin kingdoms. Then one cold night William receives a strange book from an unknown visitor, a book that leads him and Fauna to the mysterious stone toad that sits in the castle’s Great Hall. When an accidental spell brings the stone creature to life, the giant toad hops away—with William between its jaws! Fauna is no match for a ten-foot-tall frog made of rock, but she has magic—and a good amount of grit—on her side. Determined to save her friend, Fauna ventures forth on a journey through dangerous lands filled with fearsome giants, talking bears, and packs of rogue goblins. And in order to save William and reveal the mystery behind the stone toad, Fauna might have to divulge a secret that could turn her friends against her forever.
Death and Mr. Pickwick
Author: Stephen Jarvis
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374712646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now. Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374712646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now. Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.