DICKENS, Charles

Bleak House

Sir Leicester Dedlock of Chesney Wold is unaware of his wife's illegitimate daughter, Esther, who is eventually made a ward of John Jarndyce, her guardian at Bleak House. Richard Carstone and his cousin Ada...

Nicholas Nickleby

By the age of nineteen, Nicholas Nickleby and his family are left penniless and need to ask for help from his merciless uncle, Ralph. Nicholas is sent to Dotheboys Hall, and runs away with the lad Smike...

Mrs Lirriper

Mrs Lirriper is an involving story of people thrown together by chance, that moves from the squalors of Victorian London to the sunnier climes of southern France. Recently widowed, Mrs. Lirriper devotes her...

Pickwick Papers (I-III)

These are the posthumous papers of the members of the Pickwick Club - Samuel Pickwick, Tupman, Snodgrass and Winkler. They had been requested to write down an account of their adventurous journeys and the...

Hard Times

This is the short story of Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown, an industrial mill down in the north of England. He wishes to bring up his two children in 'practical ways'. His daughter. Louisa, is married to the...