{"product_id":"9781836160007","title":"The Pocket Charles Dickens : Quizzes and Puzzles","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Gemini Books \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/11\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 128 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781836160007,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crossword puzzles in this book focus on the same topics that fascinated Charles Dickens: London, food and drink, childhood, Christmas, love and marriage, and servants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngenious anagrams draw on the amusingly apposite names given by Dickens to his characters, while wordsearch puzzles contain a host of heroes and heroines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursue correctly identified characters through a maze in 'Hunt the Villain' puzzles and identify locations in the novels in 'Place the Place' puzzles. A more complex variation of this type of puzzle draws on Dickens's critical view of the legal profession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver a dozen quizzes explore the clothes, work, pets, relations, nicknames, counties, inns, humble clerks and English towns of Dickens's richly detailed world. There is even a quiz on Charles Dickens the man: the self-styled 'Inimitable Boz'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis charming book offers an entertaining way to re-enter the powerfully imagined world of Dickens, a realm of plum puddings and Christmas punch, icy windows and cosy firesides, starving orphans, tightwads, pickpockets, murderers and cruel teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTest your knowledge, refresh your memory and challenge your ingenuity. If the quizzes and puzzles in this book lead you to reread the inexhaustible novels, so much the better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57218714337653,"sku":"9781836160007","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781836160007.jpg?v=1779438098","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781836160007","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}