Charles Dickens

When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...

A handsome gift edition, this volume includes Dickens's immortal Christmas favorite, A Christmas Carol. Complete with original illustrations, a selection of some of Dicken's other Christmas stories, & an Introduction from John Irving, this book will make an ideal present for the holiday season.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Martin Chuzzlewit) was serialized between 1843 and 1844, and is considered to be one of Charles Dickens's last picaresque novels. Raised by his grandfather and namesake, Martin Chuzzlewit is disinherited after revealing his love for his nursemaid, Mary. With no fortune, Martin apprentices himself to the greedy architect Seth Pecksniff and befriends Tom Pinch. Although Dickens considered Martin Chuzzlewit...

A beautiful edition of the timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the story that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humor and love for his fellow man. The author's colorful illustrations guide the reader through Scrooge's lively journey to find the meaning of Christmas. This unabridged edition...

A collection of four Christmas stories by the nineteenth-century English writer, including "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton."

Contains four stories from "Christmas books" and six stories from Christmas stories.

The author of such works as "Oliver Twist" and "A Christmas Carol" retells the story of Jesus Christ for his own children.

"What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid, close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition, which contains over 14,000 of Dickens's letters. The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of the 'Sparkler of Albion'"-- Book...