Charles Dickens

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce

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Frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. These short works display the imagination of a master storyteller given free rein.

Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.

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Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.

Oliver Twist: After escaping from a life of poverty and abuse that begins in a workhouse and making his way to London, orphaned Oliver Twist is recruited into a gang of young pickpockets, from which he is rescued by the elderly Mr. Brownlow. The old curiosity shop: Follows the fortunes of young Nell Trent and her maternal grandfather, who gambles away what money they have in a mistaken attempt to secure Nell's future. Bleak House: A complex tale...

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An adaption of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

After Pip, an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice inherits a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, his future seems promising. But a bitter heiress is intent on preventing Pip from finding true love.