Charles Dickens Books
Great Expectations
The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prel...
Read MoreA Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses...
Read MoreGreat Expectations (Movie Tie-In)
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, and Jeremy Irvine as P...
Read MoreOliver Twist
Mysterious, dark and full of excitement, Oliver Twist takes readers on a compelling journey through the crime-haunted alleys of Victorian London. It's heart-rending story of an innocent boy's strug...
Read MoreGreat Expectations
Introduction by George Bernard Shaw • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister,...
Read MoreA Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)
Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIESAfter eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor...
Read MoreMemoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
In 1837 Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, was asked to ‘tidy up’ Joseph Grimaldi’s autobiography – he ended up re-writing most of it. Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837),...
Read MoreA Christmas Carol
"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they...
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