When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummles and their...

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read.

In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory. On seeing the professor turn into a man devoid of emotions, the reader realizes how empty one becomes without a past.

In the dead of night a stranger arrives and disembarks from his train at Mugby Junction. He is running away from his past. Desperately trying to avoid it by deciding which of the seven rail lines, out of town, to take with the help of his new friends, a Lamp Lighter from the station and his daughter. Will they help him find the closure he needs with his troubles? This book is a collection of eight short stories all set around the mythical train station Mugby Junction. Charles Dickens, and four of his contemporaries, explore this fictional setting through their own inventive tales. The fourth...

"We count by changes and events within us. Not by years." The fourth of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas Books. Grace and Marion are two sisters living in a small English village along with their servants, Clemency and Ben. The two sisters seek good marriages but these plans are foiled by misfortune and circumstance. Deceit, deception and disappointment are the sisters' companions as they seek to make their way in the world. One of Charles Dickens' lesser known works, this is a delightful entry in his series of Christmas Books.

"Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good." The fifth and final of Charles Dickens' famous Christmas Books. Professor Redlaw is a man haunted by the sorrows of his past, a past he is given the chance to escape... ...but is the price of escape too great to be worth paying? One of Charles Dickens' lesser known works, this is a delightful entry in his series of Christmas Books.

This classic 1843 tale by Charles Dickens has all your favorite characters in their original telling: Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the rest. This beautiful hard cover edition includes the original illustrations, in full color, by John Leech. The cover is also very close to the original. All in all, if you want to read "A Christmas Carol" as nearly as it was when it was first written, this edition is for you.

Also available as a soft cover edition.

Note: John Leech's illustrations were created as engravings which had to be colored by hand, or through wood cuts. Due to...

"So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you " The second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books. On New Year's Eve, Trotty, a poor messenger becomes despondent about the news of wickedness and evil in the world. Despite offering such actos of charity as he can, seeing cruelty and inequality in the world, Trotty begins to despair. Soon he faces a trip to a church tower which will show him the true meaning of despair... Like its predecessor, A Christmas Carol, this second Christmas book pushed Dickens' moral message of righting wrongs.

This classic 1843 tale by Charles Dickens has all your favorite characters in their original telling: Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the rest. This beautiful hard cover edition includes the original illustrations, in full color, by John Leech. The cover is also very close to the original. All in all, if you want to read "A Christmas Carol" as nearly as it was when it was first written, this edition is for you.

Also available in hard cover, with full color original illustrations, at ISBN: 9781936830886