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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 H. G. Wells's science fiction classic "The Time Machine" and includes explanatory notes, an outline of plots and themes, critical analysis, a Wells chronology, discussion questions, and other study tools.

The boy who wouldn't grow up and his adventures with Wendy and the lost boys in the Neverland evoke a deep emotional response as they give form to our feelings about parents, boys and girls, the unknown, freedom, and responsibility.

Young Tom is a pauper, doomed to wander the streets begging for crusts.

Presents nineteenth-century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about good and evil in human nature, in which a scientist named Dr.

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.

Follows the adventures of Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate Prison to her position of wealth and stature in seventeenth century England and move to the American colonies.

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.

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.