Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in pr…
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just t…
Bleak House is one of Dickens's finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fu…
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose …
The Old Curiosity Shop with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the…
This collection of six stories, based on Shakespeare's plays, is the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers. Meet the tragic young lovers Romeo and Juliet, mad King Lear, angry…
This book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare's greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare's most famous characters - magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shyl…
This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men - one French, one English, but very similar in appearance - are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like…
Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the women he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ev…
Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first year are cold and lonely - and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifyi…