It was the time of the French Revolution -- a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though,...
It was the time of the French Revolution -- a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, ...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fiction...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fiction...
The labyrinthine plot of Bleak House focuses on a seemingly endless inheritance dispute. Dozens of characters, including the innocent young narrator Esther Summerson, her friends Richard Carstone and Ada Clare, and the jaded aristocrats Sir and Lady Dedlock, are directly or indirectly caught up in the case. Written in bold and inventive language, it is Dicken's epic vision of Victorian society. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition focus on the novel's social context and reception.
The labyrinthine plot of Bleak House focuses on a seemingly endless inheritance dispute. Dozens of characters, including the innocent young narrator E...
Young Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, helps the escaped convict Abel Magwitch and sets in motion a train of events that will affect his entire young life. This is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel of the same name.
Young Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, helps the escaped convict Abel Magwitch and sets in motion a train of events that will affect his entire young life...
The novels of Charles Dickens (1812 70), with their inimitable energy and their comic, tragic and grotesque characters, are still widely read, and reworked for film and television. Great Expectations was (like most of Dickens' works) first published in serial form, in his periodical All the Year Round, shortly before the first book edition of 1861. The serial version is now reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection simultaneously with the three-volume book edition and a volume of newly photographed actual-size colour images of the entire original manuscript. Dickens himself had the...
The novels of Charles Dickens (1812 70), with their inimitable energy and their comic, tragic and grotesque characters, are still widely read, and rew...
"Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate." One of the most famous and well-loved books ever written. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miser whose heart is as cold and remorseless as the most vicious of winter days. Kindness has long since left Scrooge, along with the people he once cared about. As Christmas approaches, Scrooge sees no sense in taking time away from his precious business or wasting his precious money on frivolity or gifts... ...but soon Scrooge will receive spectral visitors who will bring...
"Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate." One of the m...
"Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate." One of the most famous and well-loved books ever written. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a miser whose heart is as cold and remorseless as the most vicious of winter days. Kindness has long since left Scrooge, along with the people he once cared about. As Christmas approaches, Scrooge sees no sense in taking time away from his precious business or wasting his precious money on frivolity or gifts... ...but soon Scrooge will receive spectral visitors who will bring...
"Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate." One of the m...
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-39. The story is of the o...
