Charles Dickens / Author
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip told by the protagonist in semi-autobiographical style as a remembrance of his life from the early days of his childhood until years after the main...
Hard Times
In Dickens's story of the horrors of a utilitarian upbringing, reason and facts are everything, and imagination and creativity are nothing.
Sketches by Boz
With a realism that was virtually unique in the 1830s, the pieces collected in this text encompass the life of a whole city, from the seedy gin shops of central London, its theatres, its courts, its...
Barnaby Rudge
This story was originally produced for BBC broadcast by talented creators of radio entertainment. Complete with sound effects, beguiling music, and a full cast of characters, this classic story is...
Master Humphrey's Clock
In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop, Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is in fact the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that...
The Battle of Life
This 1846 novel by Dickens is a beautiful tale of love and self-abnegation.
The Un-Commercial Traveler
This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together for the first time articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade...
The Chimes
The second of Charles Dickens's Christmas books is both a topical satire and a plea for human charity.
Three Ghost Stories
When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled around its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the...
Nicholas Nickleby
It is the story of the Nicklebys (Nicholas, his mother and sister Kate) who have been left penniless by the death of Mr Nickleby.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
In this novel two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady...
Little Dorrit
A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This story is a murder mystery in which Edwin Drood is supposedly murdered and suspicion is cast on his uncle.
A Tale of Two Cities
First published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most famous and popular novels. This stirring tale, set in the late eighteenth century against the backdrop of the French...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Far be it from anyone to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everyone is often as likely to be wrong as right. In general, everyone has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most...
Oliver Twist
A twist of beauty and an inviting design may inspire readers to read the newly-abridged edition of Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist; to join the hero in asking, "Please sir, may I have some...
Martin Chuzzlewit
Chronicles Martin Chuzzlewit's experiences as a student of architecture and a pioneer in the American West.
Bleak House
Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents.Dickens's tale takes us from the...
David Copperfield
The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David is born in the England of the 1810s. David's father dies before he is born, and about seven years later, his...
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death...
Dombey and Son
A number of stories centering upon a self-important merchant and his two children.