Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens: A Life
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Group Uk
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon. Perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language, the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination, Sam Weller, Mr Pickwick, the Artful Dodger, David Copperf... Buy or find out more →
Charles Dickens: Five Novels
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Sterling Publs.
Many readers know Victorian England through the writings of Charles Dickens. Not only did Dickens put a face on the era through his memorable characters, he also captured the spirit of his age in entertaining fiction spu... Buy or find out more →
A Tale Of Two Cities
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled ... Buy or find out more →
Little Dorrit
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in A... Buy or find out more →
Bleak House
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself' 'Jarndyce and Jardyce is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many... Buy or find out more →
Oliver Twist
$9.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin
This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that... Buy or find out more →
David Copperfield
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotes... Buy or find out more →
A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Rethink the Classics
After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the sto... Buy or find out more →
Oliver Twist Audio CD
$45.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
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David Copperfield (Abridged Audio)
$34.95$29.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield The Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (the full title as it originally appeared)
In David Copperfield (1850) Dickens wrote the most nearly a... Buy or find out more →
Great Expectations (Abridged Audio)
$34.95$29.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
Read by Anton Lesser abridged
In this, perhaps Dickens most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge who risks losing himself in snobbe... Buy or find out more →
Pickwick Papers Audiobook
$45.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
‘Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat’
Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers – a comic m... Buy or find out more →
Great Expectations
$34.95 – Hardcover book / Everymans Library
Pictures From Italy
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
This volume contains all of Conan Doyle's now largely neglected poetry, here collected in one volume for the first time, plus a late, allegorical one-act play, The Journey. Buy or find out more →
Barnaby Rudge
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Dickens’s first historical novel is a thrilling tale of murder, treachery and forbidden love with rioting mob scenes to make your hair stand on end.
‘One of Dickens’s most neglected, but most rewarding, novels’ Peter A... Buy or find out more →
Nicholas Nickleby
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
‘I love Dickens but I'm particularly fond of Nicholas Nickleby… It's one of those books I can just read and reread’ Nigel Havers
When Nicholas’s father dies he, his mother and sister, Kate, are left penniless. To e... Buy or find out more →
Mystery Of Edwin Drood
$9.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin Books
Sketches By Boz
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A Christmas Carol
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
‘Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.’ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
INCLUDES ‘THE CHIMES’... Buy or find out more →
David Copperfield
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course... Buy or find out more →
Dombey And Son
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A proud businessman is at the heart of this satire - Dombey and Son is funny, highly relevant and hugely enjoyable.
Paul Dombey is an ambitious, calculating London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his sh... Buy or find out more →
Great Expectations
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him ... Buy or find out more →
Little Dorrit
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air?'
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in A... Buy or find out more →
Martin Chuzzlewit
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Martin Chuzzlewit is a comic masterpiece which courted controversy on publication with its scathing portrayal of nineteenth-century America
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW
Wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit is surrounded... Buy or find out more →
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Featuring an introduction by Matthew Pearl The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the near... Buy or find out more →
The Old Curiosity Shop
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
‘I bought it, read and loved it’ Derek Jacobi
Gentle Nell Trent lives a simple, if solitary life with her doting grandfather in his curiosity shop. Her parents died in poverty and unbeknownst to Nell her grandfather ... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times
$12.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagi... Buy or find out more →
A Christmas Carol
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had... Buy or find out more →
Nicholas Nickleby
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee M... Buy or find out more →
Our Mutual Friend
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
‘Has a dead man any use for money? … What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse’s?’
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatees... Buy or find out more →
Charles Dickens: The Making Of A Literary Giant
$39.95$9.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
This is a lively, insightful exploration of Charles Dickens' early years and creative influences. Christopher Hibbert is a prolific writer with an impeccable reputation. Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of "Georgiana: ... Buy or find out more →
Old Curiosity Shop
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Dombey And Son
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
To Paul Dombey, business is everything. He runs his domestic affairs as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially, neglecting his daughter Florence. In Dombey's mercantile terms, she is 'merely a base coin... Buy or find out more →
American Notes For General Circulation
$9.95 – Trade paperback / Penguin
Hard Times
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a con... Buy or find out more →
Bleak House
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal... Buy or find out more →
Barnaby Rudge
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
"I dreamed ... I dreamed just now that something - it was in the shape of a man - followed me - came softly to me - wouldn't let me be - but was always hiding and crouching, like a cat in dark corners, waiting till I sho... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times (Audio CD)
$29.95 – Compact disc / Naxos Audio Books
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Hard Times
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. They live in a smoky, troubled industrial town so ente... Buy or find out more →
A Tale Of Two Cities
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris’s most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes’... Buy or find out more →
Pickwick Papers
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English count... Buy or find out more →
Our Mutual Friend
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
‘Has a dead man any use for money? … What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse’s?’
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatees... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a con... Buy or find out more →
Hard Times Everyman's Library
$31.95 – Hardcover book / Modern Library
A scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" is a daring novel of ideas--and ultimately a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagi... Buy or find out more →
Charles Dickens Box Set
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Crw
This boxed set is a perfect gift or collector's item and represents wonderful value for money. The stylish box contains three of the shorter works of Charles Dickens, and complements The Collector's Library five-book box... Buy or find out more →
Oliver Twist
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that... Buy or find out more →
Pickwick Papers
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The Pickwick Papers was the comic masterpiece that carried 24 year-old Dickens to fame as it appeared in monthly instalments in 1836-7. It records the 'perambulations, perils, travels, adventures' of the Pickwick Club's ... Buy or find out more →
Great Expectations
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 Estella; the sudden generosity of a myster... Buy or find out more →