A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever.

This text is a revised edition of Dickens' classic tale. After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. Two very different men become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette.

This is the novel Dickens regarded as his favourite child and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life.

Scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery, this novel is peopled with some of memorable characters (the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy). It combines the elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama.

Beginning as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops, this title presents Dickens' most popular characters such as: Samuel Pickwick, and his companions Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman.

In the persons of Gradgrind and Bounderby, Dickens stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.

Focuses on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With satire, this novel portrays a dark, macabre London, inhabited by disparate characters.

William Dorrit is a long-term inmate in the debtors' prison, Marshalsea. He must stay there until his fortune improves and his debt is paid. For her entire life so far, his daughter Amy has faithfully nursed him in jail. Trying to keep herself out of debt she works as a seamstress for the stern Mrs Clennam.

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Blending realism with non-realistic genres such as fairy-tale, allegory, and pastoral, this title presents the tale of Nell's tragedy that contains some of the author's most memorable comic and grotesque creations, including the dwarf Daniel Quilp, Dick Swiveller and Kit Nubbles.

Presents a mystery built around a presumed crime - the murder of a nephew by his uncle.

First published in 1990, this shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.

This edition of Dickens' tenth novel, set in the industrial Midlands, is that of the 1854 first edition. It has been re-edited in the light of scholarly findings made since 1990. Annotations have been revised and expanded.

This is the frank record of Dickens' experience of the New World, from his uncomfortable sea voyage to his perception of the American character and his frequently savage criticism of American practices and habits. It is also a personal record of Dickens' emotional and political evolution.

What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol ? Combining the original text with Dickens's Public Reading text, this annotated edition of the classic ghost story delves into the engrossing story of the book's publication, when it first captivated Victorian England.

From a poverty stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed writer in the English speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels.Jane Smiley's portrait of the great man offers interpretations of almost all of his major works.

A dazzling Dickensian thriller set in the underworld in the company of a grown-up 'Tiny' Timothy Cratchit !

Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed both men. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, Dickens - at the height of his powers and popularity - hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn't change his ways he will die a miserable man.