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"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved novels of Charles Dickens' and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness of prostitute Nancy and the innocence of Oliver.

A collection of the author's Christmas stories. It influences ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.

Penguin Children's 60's edition - small paperback book - includes The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens, The Phantom Ship...

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth".

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Follows the story of Little Nell who lives with her grandfather in his magical shop of curiosities in London. Her grandfather's attempts to secure an inheritance for Nell lead them into financial trouble with the evil dwarf Quilp. Nell manages to flee and lead her grandfather to safety, but with considerable cost to her health.

Great Expectations includes some of Dickens's most memorable characters - Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella - encountered by young Pip as he grows into adulthood. This edition features a wide-ranging introduction, Dickens's working notes, the original ending and the definitive Clarendon text.

This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.

oliver twist,a christmas carol,a tale of two cities,hard times. unabridged...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old skinflint who hates everyone, especially children, and his story opens a Christmas Eve as cold...

Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights. As he grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble, misery, and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship and love.

When young Edwin Drood disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the nearby river, everyone suspects foul play. Could one of Edwin's acquaintances have murdered him - and, if so, what could their motive be? And how does this shocking event in a quiet cathedral town connect to the opium dens of London?

** love, honour, betrayal, death, gallows comedy, politics.....all you could ever want. probably dickens's best book and full of memorable characters - who thinks of the french revolution without thinking of madame defarge? and who doesn't know "it is a far far better thing...." oops, sorry, i'm going to cry (again!). ** Recommended by Fiona & Caroline

"Great Expectations" is one of Dickens's best-loved novels - and, say some critics, his greatest. Covering the story of one man's life - with many autobiographical elements - it tackles big questions of identity while mustering a cast of unforgettable characters, Miss Havisham and others. This dramatisation is the RSC's mainstage Christmas Show.

After eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille, the devoted Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie, in England. There she captures the hearts of two very different men: Charles Darney, a banished French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a well-known English lawyer, both of whom must compete for her love.

Tells the story of a poor orphan, Oliver, who survives starvation in the workhouse, life with the evil Fagin, kidnap and robbery before eventually finding happiness.

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were an orphan without friends or family. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...

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'Jarndyce and Jardyce' 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.

Collects a selection of Dickens' occasional writing, some of it written for volumes or as one-off contributions to periodicals, but mostly for "The Examiner" and the two periodicals he edited himself, including journalistic comment, fictional satire, book and theatre reviews, and other less generically identifiable writings.

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Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth".

"Oliver Twist" (1838) is one of the best loved novels of Charles Dickens' and presents some of the most memorable of Dickens' great characters, from the rascal antics of street urchin the Artful Dodger, the manipulative seediness of Fagin and the threatening brutality of Bill Sykes, to the kindness of prostitute Nancy and the innocence of Oliver.

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This is an adaptation of Dickens's popular Christmas story for reading aloud and performing.