The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost. First published on 17th December 1843, it had, by Christmas E
Set at the time of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, with the real Lord George Gordon, leader of the riots, appearing in the book. The characters are caught up in the resulting mob lawlessness, which c
A new edition of a classic tale in the EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY series which throws light on English life in the 1830s. Includes 43 works by Seymour and 'Phiz' (which accompanied the original edition), and
The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser wh
This is one of Dickens's great middle period novels, in which fairy tale, melodrama and realism mingle with hallucinatory power. The story weaves together a number of stories which centre upon the fam
In this, his final completed novel, Dickens weaves together many stories, uniting them in the symbolism of the wealth which derives from a rubbish tip.
This is an historical romance which takes place in Paris and London during the French Revolution. It is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution.
A novel in which Dickens launches a ferocious onslaught against England and English society. He draws on the memory of his father in his depiction of the Marshalsea debtors prison and there is also th
Dickens' celebrated novel of innocence betrayed and then triumphant. It recreates the London underworld populated by such characters as Fagin, Bill Sikes, Nancy and the Artful Dodger, who are contrast
This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped
An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the
Featuring part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, the author transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eightee
