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Introduction by John Cournos. Dickens set this tale of a selfish, hard-hearted man, the son he favored, and the daughter he slighted, in an England almost prostrate before the storms of change we now call the Industrial Revolution.

Presents a relentless indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy.

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth.

An illustrated collection of five holiday stories by nineteenth-century English author Charles Dickens, including the celebrated "A Christmas Carol.

Little Dorrit grows up in Marshalsea prison, where her father is confined for his debts, and she helps to feed the family with her needlework until her father receives an inheritance when she is in her teens, and more problems ensue.

In a series of adventures Nicholas, a young hero, journeys from the dungeonlike Yorkshire boys' boarding school to a high-spirited acting troupe in nineteenth-century England.

An unabridged republication of three Yuletide stories by nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens, including "The Holly-Tree," "The Haunted House," and the title work, a tale of a pleasant and simple home life.

Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster in Cokestown, a northern English village beset by industrialism, runs his family and his school with a rigid adherence to facts, but his daughter's loveless marriage, his son's involvement with gambling and robbery, and his encounters with a variety of characters, force him to recognize the value of the human heart.

The Victorian tale of Little Nell, a girl who is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly through England by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.

Contains four Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens, including the classic story of Ebinezer Scrooge who is visited by a series of ghosts on Christmas Eve.

A collection of three Christmas classics by Charles Dickens including "The Chimes," "The Haunted Man," and the title story "A Christmas Carol.

An illustrated version of the compete and unabridged "A Christmas Carol.

Presents a large-print edition of the story in which the arrival of a mysterious stranger threatens to destroy a happy household in nineteenth-century England.

A collection of three Christmas stories by Charles Dickens, including "The Cricket on the Hearth," the story of a happy family that is almost destroyed by a jealous old man.