Charles Dickens is one of the most popular novelists of all time. In fact, his many novels and short stories have never gone out of print — a feat few other writers have accomplished. Known for creating some of literature's most beloved characters, including old Ebenezer Scrooge and young Oliver Twist, Dickens was also known for his critical view of the Victorian era. Rediscover four of his best-loved novels in this elegant collection from Canterbury Classics: Oliver Twist , A Christmas Carol , A Tale of Two Cities , and Great Expectations . Bound in lovely forest green leather with padded covers and marbled end papers, Charles Dickens is a must-have edition for all home libraries.

Wer kennt ihn nicht, den zynischen, alten Ebenezer Scrooge, der es selbst am Weihnachtsabend bedauert, seinem Angestellten frei geben zu müssen, Bittsteller verjagt und die Einladung seines Neffen zum Weihnachtsessen barsch ablehnt. Scrooge, dessen Name als Bezeichnung für extremen Geiz in die englische Umgangssprache Eingang gefunden hat, gehört eindeutig zu den berühmt-berüchtigsten Figuren der Weltliteratur. Erst durch die Geister vergangener, gegenwärtiger und zukünftiger Weihnachtsfeste erkennt Scrooge den wahren Sinn von Weihnachten.

Robert Lindsay stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. From the echo of the first line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ to the final ‘It is a far far better thing that I do than I have ever done’, Dickens’ classic novel of the French revolution tells a story of the redemptive powers of love in the face of cruelty, violence and neglect. Set in London and Paris, it shows the plight of the French people under the brutal oppression of the aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality of the revolutionaries towards the former aristocrats in the years immediately following. Among the memorable characters are Charles Darnay, a French former aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who tries to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay’s wife, Lucie Manette. In this moving, intricate tale spanning eight tumultuous years, Dickens orchestrates the wider political picture behind the story of Lucie, Darnay and Carton with his customary brilliance. This epic production, dramatised by Mike Walker, stars Robert Lindsay as Dickens, with Alison Steadman, Jonathan Coy, Andrew Scott, Paul Ready and Karl Johnson. Winner of the Bronze Sony Award for Best Radio Drama.

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas-time must-read. This special Puffin Classics edition brings together two of the most inspirational collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London - the works of Arts and Crafts pioneer William Morris and the literature of Charles Dickens. Illustrator Liz Catchpole has selected patterns from the V&A archive and introduced new artwork inspired by the collection to create a beautiful cover which brings Charles Dickens's timeless story to life.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Christmas and the people all around him.

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This text, that of the 1854 first edition, has been re-edited in light of recent scholarly findings. Annotations have been revised and expanded. Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions reprints all of the documents on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism that appeared in the Second Edition, save one, and introduces new pieces by R. D. Butterworth and Thomas Carlyle. Criticism collects seventeen important essays on Hard Times-seven of them new to the Third Edition-by Hippolyte Taine, John Ruskin, George Gissing, Bernard Shaw, F. R. Leavis, Monroe Engel, Robert Barnard, David Craig, David Lodge, Roger Fowler, Patricia E. Johnson, Gorman Beauchamp, Martha C. Nussbaum, David L. Cowles, Jean Ferguson Carr, Eric P. Levy, and Leona Toker. A Chronology and revised Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. To celebrate we're publishing six of his works in this exclusive and sumptuous boxed set of lavish, clothbound editions, designed by "Penguin's" own award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits to help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are things created by man.

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.

Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.

The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain, a period when there was strong nostalgia for old Christmas traditions together with the introduction of new customs, such as Christmas trees and greeting cards. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.

A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth , by Charles Dickens , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics :
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. 0in 0in 0pt">Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens ’s A Christmas Carol the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.
From Scrooge’s Bah!” and Humbug!” to Tiny Tim’s God bless us every one!” A Christmas Carol shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, and the value of the holidays. But beneath its sentimental surface, A Christmas Carol offers another of Dickens’s sharply critical portraits of a brutal society, and an inspiring celebration of the possibility of spiritual, psychological, and social change.
This new volume collects Dickens’s three most renowned Christmas Books,” including The Chimes , a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth , whose eponymous creature remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness.
Katharine Kroeber Wiley , the daughter of a scholar and a sculptor, has a degree in English Literature from occidental College. Her work has appeared in Boundary Two and the recent book, Lore of the Dolphin . She is currently working on a book on Victorian Christmas writings.

'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.'
Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Oliver Twist published in 1838，is one Of Charles Dickens’s best—known and most Ioved works．It has been adapted into several fIlms and a long running Broadway musicaI and has been considered a Classlc ever Since it was first published.The book OriginalIy appeared as a seriaI in a magazine called Bentleyr’s Miscellany．of which DiCkens was editor．Each week．readers waited anxiously for the next instaIment in the tale;this expIains why each Chapter ends with a cliffhanger’that would hold the． reader’s attentlon and interest until the folloWing chapter waS published．

This ebook compiles Charles Dickens' greatest writings, including novels, novellas and short stories such as "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "The Signal-Man".

This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, 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 author.

In an orphanage in Victorian England, Oliver Twist survives among his companions in misfortune. fed poorly operated, it is placed in a funeral parlor where, again, he only knows deprivation and abuse. Oliver endures all, until a provocation too pushes him to flee to London. Exhausted, hungry, it is collected by a gang of young thieves who work for the old Fagin. Between Dodger, Bill, Nancy and the other, Oliver discovers a cruel world where only count cunning and strength. Arrested for a robbery he did not commit the person of Mr. Brownlow, Oliver does not betray his band and draws the benevolence of the good man. But Fagin and Bill are quick to lay hands on him and forced him to participate in the burglary of the home of his benefactor ... Charles John Huffam Dickens, born in Landport (in), near Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 7 February 1812 and died at Gad's Hill Place (en) Higham (in) in Kent June 9, 1870 (58 years), is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. From his earliest writings, he became immensely famous, its popularity continues to grow throughout his publications. The powerful experience of his childhood, which some see as the key to his genius, was shortly before the imprisonment of her father for debts to the Marshalsea, hiring to twelve years with Warren when he stuck labels on waxing pots for over a year. Although he returned almost three years at school, his education remained sketchy and its great culture is largely due to his personal efforts. He founded and published several weeklies, made five major novels, five smaller books (novellas English), hundreds of news and articles on literary subjects or company. His passion for theater led him to write and directed plays, acting and doing public readings of his works which, when touring often exhausting, soon became extremely popular in Britain and the United States United. Charles Dickens was a tireless advocate of children's rights, education for all, of women and many other causes, including that of prostitutes. He is appreciated for his humor, satire of manners and characters. His works have been published in almost all weekly and monthly serials, genre inaugurated by himself in 1836: This format is binding but it can respond quickly, even to change the action and characters along the way. The intrigues are neat and often enriched with contemporary events, even if history previously held.

This fiercely comic tale stands in marked  contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick  Papers. Set against London's seedy back  street slums, Oliver Twist is  the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust  into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most  depraved villains preside: the incorrigible  Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the  terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose  grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the  "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this  drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied  goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the  publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the  literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,  according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal  announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the  rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a  champion."

The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the characters, symbolizes the corruption of the legal system and the society which supports it.

“Jarndyce and Jarndyce” is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in it. Esther Summerson watches as her friends and neighbours are consumed by their hopes and disappointments with the proceedings. But while the intricate puzzles of the lawsuit are being debated by lawyers, other more dramatic mysteries are unfolding that involve heartbreak, lost children, blackmail and murder.

The fog and cold that permeate Bleak House mirror a Victorian England mired in spiritual insolvency. Dickens brought all his passion, brilliance, and narrative verve to this huge novel of lives entangled in a multi-generational lawsuit—and through it, he achieved, at age 41, a stature almost Shakespearean.