"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 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...

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.

Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel. The novel centers on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies

The main theme of the novel, according to a preface by Dickens, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens' great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens.

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. It satirizes the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional "Circumlocution Office." In...

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel after David Copperfield to be fully narrated in the first person.