Charles Dickens

The Haunted House: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

de Charles Dickens & Varla Ventura

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection...

Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

de Charles Dickens

In A Tale of Two Cities, French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Darnay's wife Lucie against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the guillotine....

Learn Spanish! A Christmas Carol: Dual Language Reader (English/Spanish)

de Charles Dickens, Luis Barthe Don & Bradley Jason

As opposed to memorizing Spanish phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry Spanish grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader ("DLR") will keep you excited to get to the next page! This compilation...

Great Expectations

de Charles Dickens

Introduction by George Bernard Shaw

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor....

Oliver Twist

de Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse. Eventually he ends up in the London street gang run by Fagin, who attempts to blacken the boy's pure soul in his service. Through...

Martin Chuzzlewit

de Charles Dickens

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness. And every member of the Chuzzlewit family is given the chance to display their own brand thereof, among them...

A Tale of Two Cities

de Charles Dickens

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 an event...

Great Expectations

de Charles Dickens

"Great Expectations" is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life (and attempting to become a gentleman along the way). "Great Expectations" was widely popular and was riddled with many of the themes...

A Christmas Carol and Other Stories

de Charles Dickens & John Irving

An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charles Dickens's beloved tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge--who...

Oliver Twist

de Charles Dickens & Frederick Busch

Named a "national institution" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective...

Our Mutual Friend

de Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel, and some believe his most sophisticated. A young man discovers that he must marry a mercenary young woman before he can claim his inheritance. He...

A Tale of Two Cities

de Charles Dickens

Telling the story of the French Revolution through the eyes of individuals swept up in the epoch-making events that surround them, A Tale of Two Cities is both historical and personal - a tale of love, redemption...

Hard Times

de 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 Old Curiosity Shop

de Charles Dickens

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles and...

The Pickwick Papers

de Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise. It follows the travels of Mr Pickwick and the Pickwick...

Nicholas Nickleby

de Charles Dickens

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies. The novel follows his attempt to succeed in supporting them, despite his uncle Ralph's antagonistic lack of belief in him....

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

de Charles Dickens & Kristie Allen

Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

de Charles Dickens & Matthew Pearl

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Charles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, The Mystery of Edwin Drood foreshadows both the detective stories...

A Christmas Carol

de Charles Dickens

"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 travel through...

Hard Times

de Charles Dickens

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was...