Paul Dombey is a heartless London merchant who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business. In the tight orbit of his daily life there is no room for dealing with emotions because emotion has no market value. In his son he sees ...
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, and a detective story.
The popularity of A Christmas Carol excited demand for more tales of ghostly visitation, and the great Victorian storyteller happily obliged. A Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat provides the backdrop for Dickens and his f...
Great Expectations: (Classics Deluxe ...
Charles DickensA graphic deluxe edition to mark its 150th anniversary. A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward...
Amy Dorrit's father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors' prison and has lived there with her family for all of her 22 years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. ...
"God bless Us, Every One!" brings images of the Christmas Spirit into the mind of children of all ages. Read this classic Christmas story to your children and make it a family tradition. A true Christmas story about the t...
In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens's genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wils...
Oliver Twist & Other Classic Tales: S...
Charles DickensSix of Charles Dicken's greatest novels specially retold for children, with sumptuous illustrations.