Pip is a poor orphaned boy who lives together with his sister and her husband. Pip is not educated but has great dreams of the future. He is determined to get out of the low class...

first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the...

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights...

Going into Society by Charles Dickens. A hilarious Dickens story, with his masterly story-within-a-story format, about a sideshow and the various characters who inhabit it -...

Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens. Doctor Marigold was originally published in All the Year Round in 1865. A quote from the Hesperus book jacket reads, " Named after the...

The novel follows the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the web of...

Barnaby Rudge is Dickens' first historical novel set in revolutionary times similarly to his other historical text A Tale of Two Cities. Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton, wanders in and...

A wealthy merchant devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on...

This is a Sovereign Classic bicentennial edition of Dickens’ novel which revolutionised fiction writing of the time through its potent narrative depicting contemporary London...