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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.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

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.

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

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

Daffy Duck, the stingy proprietor of the Lucky Duck megamart, demands that his employees work on Christmas in order to take advantage of last-minute shoppers.

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

The orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the strangely ambiguous figure of the master lawyer Mr.

This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse, runs away to London where he is captured by thieves and finally escapes, is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.

The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.

Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly encounter with the three spirits of Christmas show him the true meaning of the holiday season.

"Charles Dickens' historical novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' follows the life of Doctor Alexandre Manette following his eighteen-year imprisonment in the Bastille.