This edition contains the original and unabridged text of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Formatted for study with large margins for student notes.Great Expectations is a coming-of-age novel, a
CHAPTER I My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to b
A Christmas Carol is about an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge has devoted his life to the becoming rich, but undergoes a profound change over the course of a Christmas Eve night. He is
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
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens'
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's 13th novel and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel
In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himse
Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837–9. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workho
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the Fren
If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland
A Tale of Two Cities is an historical novel written by Charles Dickens first published in 1859. A novel that deals with themes such as guilt, shame and retribution. The main source for Dickens to writ
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her fi
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likene
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called P
This edition contains the original and unabridged text of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Formatted for study with large margins for student notes.David Copperfield is the common name of the ei
This edition contains the original and unabridged text of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.Great Expectations is a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depict
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of
Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens’ upbringing was a mixt
The story of Ebenezer Scrooge is one that has stuck around for centuries now, and one that is constantly worth revisiting. When the ghosts of Christmas take Scrooge on a journey on Christmas Eve, it l
This story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present
In this classic and timeless Christmas story, the greedy and individualistic Ebenezer Scrooge prepares for another Christmas Eve without celebration. But this time around, Mr. Scrooge will get several
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave (chapter) as a greedy and stingy busines
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching,and has taught me to understand what your heart usedto be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope -into a better shape.”One of the most famous a
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the Fren
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the Fren
At the heart of Dickens’s second novel is a story as much about crime and poverty as it is about justice and charity. Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist grows up under the loveless, relentless watch of a
A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the sh
The original and unabridged text of this Dickens classic. Formatted for study with large margins for student notes.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is set in London and Paris before and during
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works
Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest authors and A Tale of Two Cities is one of the grandest, most imaginative stories he ever wrote, which has enchanted readers for centuries.
The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to Christmas scenes of his boyhood and youth, which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he
Oliver Twist was born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town. Orphaned almost from his first breath by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's unexplained ab
"Old Curiosity Shop" is most Dickensian in the sense that it exudes everything Dickens created in his career: outrageous characters including an angelic heroine and impossibly theatrical villain, two
