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Hard Times
Charles Dickens and Paul Schlicke (ed.)
Hard Times is Dickens’s shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author’s working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory ...
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens and Michael Cotsell (ed.)
Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another ...
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens and Andrew Sanders (ed.)
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 ...
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The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens and James Kinsley (ed.)
In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write ‘a monthly something’ illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed ‘papers’ soom ...
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens, Harvey Peter Sucksmith (ed.), and Dennis Walder
‘Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the prison, carrying the quiet with him into the turbulent streets.’ Introspective and dreamy, Arthur ...
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens and Stephen Gill (ed.)
Bleak House, Dickens’s most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections —between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ...
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Dombey and Son (2 ed.)
Charles Dickens, Alan Horsman (ed.), and Dennis Walder
Dombey and Son ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The ...
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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens and Paul Schlicke (ed.)
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical ...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens and Margaret Cardwell (ed.)
Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper, 'because you were the last person in his company, ...
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, Kathleen Tillotson (ed.), and Stephen Gill
The new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens’s revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which ...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens and Margaret Cardwell (ed.)
This edition of one of Dickens's earlier novels is based on the accurate Clarendon edition of the text and includes the prefaces to the 1850 and 1867 editions and Dickens's Number Plans.
Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens, Jon Mee, and Clive Hurst (ed.)
What dark history is this?’ This is the question that hangs over Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic ...
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, Margaret Cardwell (ed.), and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
‘You are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret.’ Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with ...
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Charles Dickens and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)
‘What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?’ Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, ...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens and Elizabeth M. Brennan (ed.)
‘… holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild, grotesque companions; the only pure, fresh, youthful object in the throng.’ ‘Little Nell’ cares for her grandfather in the gloomy ...
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