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The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Presents the text to the Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist" about an orphan who is raised in a workhouse and who eventually runs away to London.

A miser, who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his life and forecast his future, shares his holiday with the Cratchit family.

After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finding employment in a wine factory.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.

Includes an introduction, over eighty illustrations, and annotations that explain literary, autobiographical, and historical aspects of the text.

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.

At the Boffin mansion, built on the fortune amassed from old Mr. Harmon's dust heaps, and at the Veneerings' superior dinner-table Dickens creates glorious comic satire.

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.

Presents the complete text of Charles Dickens' classic novel along with background and source information and twenty essays that critically examine his work.

Presents the classic tale of love, courage, and sacrifice set against the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution, and the story of the orphan Pip and his rise in Victorian society when a mysterious benefactor allows him to be educated as a gentleman.