Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a m
I will celebrate Christmas and try to remember it all year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. The spirits of all three will always be in me. Old Ebenezer Scrooge is forced to chan
Great literature can pose problems for narrators. If the book is a classic, the pitfalls are that the listener has a preconceived notion of how the book should sound and, perhaps, how the characters t
Expect great adventures for seven-year-old Pip, a blacksmith's apprenticewho dreams of a better life. Can a dangerous escaped convict, a wealthy oldwoman, and a secret guardian help him turn his rags
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapte
Macmillan Students’ Novels are intended for those reading major classic novels for the first time. Each volume contains the text, together withan introduction, a section of plates, and explanatory not
Compass Publishing brings Charles Dicken’s second novel, featuring the innocent young Oliver seemingly trapped in a world of child labor and thievery, to its line of Compass Classic Readers. English l
Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’s weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the chee
A masterful pageant of idealism, love, and adventure – in a Paris bursting with revolutionary frenzy and a London alive with anxious anticipation. A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens`s most energet
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked??contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick??Papers. Set against London's seedy back??street slums, Oliver Twist is??the saga of a workhouse orphan capt
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coa
Reissued to commemorate its 150th anniversary, this timeless novel details the people who were caught up in the wave of violence and murder that marked the French Revolution, including a young English
Named a ""national institution"" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale
