19th Century Fiction Books

Dickens' classic study of childhood innocence. Young Oliver Twist is thrust into the darkly comic world of Fagin, his apprentice the Artful Dodger and their gang of child thieves. Can Oliver escape from their clutches and discover his true history.

Reset with wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Dickens scholarship in an introduction, and also includes a plot summary, annotated bibliography, selected criticism and chronology of Dickens's life and times.

Dickens set his final full-scale masterpiece in 1860s London, creating dozens of memorable characters. All the themes that engaged him as a mature writer are featured here: love and hate, wealth and poverty, honesty and duplicity, and the formation and reformation of identity.

Dostoyevsky's most famous work which tells the story of Raskilnikov, whose contempt of society leads him to believe he is above its laws.

Follow Alice's adventures in Wonderland with the illustrations of Mervyn Peake. Peake was commissioned to produce a series of pen and ink drawings to accompany the Lewis Carroll story in 1940. Originally drawn on poor quality wartime paper they have been meticulously reproduced for this edition.

Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

A paperback edition of this novel, which includes previously unpublished episodes from the original version, dealing with the racial and social discriminations of the time. Contains introductions by Victor Doyno and Justin Kaplan, with original illustrations.

Quasimodo's doomed love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda is a retelling of the beauty and the beast story. Yet, set against the massive background of Notre Dame de Paris and medieval France, it takes on a larger perspective. The music is by Tchaikovsky, Liadov, Grieg, Janacek and Delibes.

Lily Dale lives with her sister Bell and their widowed mother in rural tranquillity at Alington. But Lily yearns for more than this idyll can offer, and in Adolphus Crosbie, a swell visiting from London, she believes she has found just that. This edition contains an introduction and notes.

This is the third in Trollope's Barsetshire series. Frank Gresham's vast estate is a landscape of debt, every last piece mortgaged by a feckless father, whilst his sweetheart Mary Thorne, adopted daughter of the Doctor, is cursed with the birthright of illegitimacy. Will love conquer all?

Harvey Rolfe's modest inheritance allows him to live quietly in London until bankruptcy and suicide bring the world's tumult to his door, together with Alma Frothingham. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

Shows the author as an acute observer of life in a provincial cathedral city and a sharp critic of the clerical establishment, moved by the predicament of women - tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their imaginations in the illusions of romance.

A collection of short stories revealing not only the writer himself but the country and culture which formed him in the early years of the 19th century. Althougth the subject matter is that of Denmark, his account of human relationships is timeless.

This novel, published in 1891, tells the story of the conversion experiences of a group of young, middle-class Baptist women and their subsequent marriages. The main concern is what is required of a woman to be accepted by the Christian community.

Published in 1890, this novel reflects the social reform ideology of the US women's movement in the late 19th century. Its theme is the destructive effect of alcohol on the family.

Originally advertised as `a book that should be in every Sunday-school library', this novel is based on the belief that `a happy home is the acme of human bliss' and that women are central to the achievement of that ideal.