A Tale of Two Cities
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. A Tale of Two Cities begins with the famous line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Set in Paris and London against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Lucie Manette and her father Alexandre,...Paperback$999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTo Be Read at Dusk
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.Paperback$999Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid AugustGreat Expectations
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. An orphan destined for a life of misery and poverty, Pip...Paperback$900Elsewhere:$999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBleak House
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket;...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOliver Twist
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Oliver Twist 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An orphan boy of seemingly no consequence goes on an adventure that will change his life forever. Fleeing a cruel workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets...Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOliver Twist
The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDavid Copperfield
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his favourite child and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreat Expectations
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Great Expectations Pip doesn't expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreat Expectations
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor—these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Tale of Two Cities
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are...Paperback$1799Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens captures the spirit of Christmas in this classic holiday novella A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s timeless tale of greed, regret, and reform—featuring a beautiful new look! In one of the most popular holiday stories of all time, meet Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who hates Christmas and all the people asking for money that the holiday brings. One...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol - Kid Classics
Share the spirit of Christmas with Dickens A Christmas Carol as an illustrated chapter storybook made for young readers! This timeless tale will have beginner readers drawn into the memorable story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Humbug! On a cobblestone street in London, on a cold Christmas Eve, the wealthy, greedy Ebenezer Scrooge is staying late at work at his “counting-house,” keeping his clerk,...Hardback$2899Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksNicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby is relaunched as part of Penguin Classics, showcasing the work of a young novelist at the height of his powers. This book is truly one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. At the heart of the story is Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, around which Dickens created a cast of some of his...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Pickwick Papers
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a glossary of Victorian and literary terms produced for the modern reader. The Pickwick Papers, Dickens' first novel, began as a romp—a series of amusing...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreat Expectations
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Dickens's cast of characters, from the orphan Pip, Miss Haversham, and Estella to...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Christmas Carol
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Two other tales are included: The Chimes and The Haunted Man. Ebenezer Scrooge hates everyone and everything. Especially children. Especially Christmas. He's greedy, wealthy, and cold-hearted, which...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekA Classic Christmas
This beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features 15 old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia. A Classic Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, the world-renowned holiday favourite). The volume also includes poems from Clement Clarke Moore, Elizabeth Barrett...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3400Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late AugustA Christmas Carol
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's wonderfully spooky tale with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper, and finished with a silk ribbon. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Mr Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. 'Bah! Humbug!' he declares, as nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello, and...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Pickwick Papers
The comic masterpiece that catapulted the 24-year-old Dickens to fame. The Pickwick Papers began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. Following the success of Sketches by Boz, Dickens was recruited to compose the words which would accompany the illustrations. Dickens quickly made the project his own and created some of his...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOliver Twist
Oliver Twist - orphan, trainee pickpocket, good boy. Elbow your way through the streets of Victorian London with Dickens's most enduring child character. 'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?' Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you'll run down the dirty...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations
The mysterious tale of an orphan who is made into a gentleman, with one of the best opening scenes you'll ever read! 'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life. Pip is more troubled...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Tale of Two Cities
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. A Tale of Two Cities is part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Christmas Carol: Popular Penguins
Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843, it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. The title of this classic is A Christmas...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens brings together Dickens's delightful Christmas writings in a gorgeous new hardback edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, this collection is designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading A...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reclusive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksStory Fold Classics: A Christmas Carol
Rediscover Charles Dickens' timeless tale, A Christmas Carol, in a stunning new edition that folds into a gorgeous, 3D paper sculpture. Creating your sculpture is simple and fun. Each page is clearly marked with fold lines, so you can keep track of your place by turning down the corners as you read. Page by page, these folds build up to...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksQuentin Blake's A Christmas Carol
Illustrated by one of the most popular artists working today, Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol is a beautiful edition of the timeless Christmas classic. A great gift for the season of giving. The wonderful Quentin Blake turns his artistic talents to Dickens’ much-loved Christmas story. This beautiful edition of Dickens' timeless Christmas classic, A Christmas Carol, is the book that...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCharles Dickens Four Novels
Four of Charles Dickens’s classic novels are collected here in one volume. Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we’ve read his renowned works of social commentary and vivid storytelling. Although these novels were written more than a hundred years ago, no home library...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksTale of Two Cities
It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known is perhaps one of literature's most famous lines. Spoken by the dissolute barrister Sydney Carton as he goes to his death at the guillotine, it marks the end of...Paperback$1499Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOliver Twist
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Oliver Twist dares to ask for more food, and with this, a character...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHard Times
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Hard Times was published in 1854 and is set in Northern England in...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekDavid Copperfield
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. David Copperfield is the story of a hard life endured, ultimately rewarded because...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Tale of Two Cities
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. A complex and profound book, A Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekHard Times
This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Sylvère Monod's superbly edited text, based on the 1854 edition and accompanied by Fred Kaplan's expanded annotations. - Fourteen illustrations from 1854 to circa 1890. - Contextual pieces by social critics and theorists of Dickens' time that give readers outstanding examples of views on industrialism, education, and utilitarianism in the nineteenth century. - Eight...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksGreat Expectations
The newly established text of Great Expectations is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. Backgrounds provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich Contexts section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel's major themes: the...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksA Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition
Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens's own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition...Hardback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCharles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years, he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksChristmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures
Brighten the holiday season with five classic tales from the master of Christmastime fiction. Charles Dickens's most famous holiday story is the 1843 publication A Christmas Carol, but he was a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In the year following the release of A Christmas Carol, Dickens...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Christmas Carol
A timeless tale of redemption and the spirit of Christmas A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' beloved novella, captures the essence of the festive season and the transformative power of kindness and compassion. Written in 1843, this classic story has become synonymous with Christmas and continues to resonate with readers of all ages. Set in Victorian London, A Christmas Carol follows...Hardback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCharles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist, and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug, and charade. For 20 years, he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreat Expectations (Painted Editions)
Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this fine collector's edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is a must-have for book lovers and literature fans. One of English literature's classic masterpieces—a harrowing novel that addresses issues of social class, human worth, and the importance of self-awareness. Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations follows the...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCharles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist, and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug, and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be...Paperback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol in 20 Minutes a Day
Reading with your kids has a profound impact on their development, and now it's easier than ever! In A Christmas Carol in 20 Minutes a Day, the unabridged text of the beloved story of old Scrooge and the three Christmas ghosts is broken down into easy, twenty-minute chunks — perfect for daily read-alouds. Thoughtful questions after each passage boost comprehension...Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDavid Copperfield
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of David Copperfield. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this irresistible 175th anniversary edition of David Copperfield. Of all my books, I like this the best - Charles Dickens. Full of tragedy and comedy in equal measure and based in...Hardback$3600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCharles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be...Paperback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Personal History of David Copperfield
This is no dusty relic, but instead something sparkling and modern — Armando Iannucci In a wildly eventful life, David Copperfield moves from the cruelty of his stepfather's care to the heights of success as a beloved and respected novelist. On his journey through Victorian society, he endures bitter treatment as a labourer, wins the approval of his formidable aunt,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHard Times (Legend Classics)
"It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own." Published originally in weekly instalments, Hard Times focuses on Mr Gradgrind's flawed model...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations
One of Charles Dickens' most acclaimed works, Great Expectations displays the author at the peak of his skills, working a collection of vivid characters through a sprawling plot studded with richly drawn scenes. First appearing in 1861, Great Expectations offers a bounty of the pleasures only this author can provide. This is the sweeping story of Pip, an orphan growing...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Classic Christmas Treasury
Cozy up with your favourite Christmas stories and discover new wintry tales with this keepsake holiday anthology. Just in time for the holidays, A Classic Christmas Treasury gathers together many of the season's classics and introduces new, diverse stories from around the globe in one decorative holiday volume. This cheerful, collectible treasury of stories, poems, and carols makes a wonderful...Hardback$3999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations: Abridged for Young Readers
A beloved classic adult novel skilfully abridged to inspire and engage a new generation of middle-grade readers, from a multi-award-winning author. Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards, he is invited to play at the gloomy, cobwebbed house of the unhappy Miss Havisham, where he is humiliated...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksCharles Dickens: Four Novels
Four of Charles Dickens’s most enduring and popular works in one volume. Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we’ve read his renowned works of social commentary and vivid storytelling. Although these novels were written more than a hundred years ago, no home library...Hardback$5000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's great masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Great Expectations chronicles the life of Pip, an ordinary country boy whose life is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events leads him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder....Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOliver Twist
Charles Dickens’s second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villainous Fagin, the virtuous Nancy, and the brutal Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist combines dark humour, elements of melodrama and social polemic.Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTale of Two Cities, A
When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance—can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens sets the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton against the backdrop of the French Revolution and its terror and chaos. The result is a powerful story...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHard Times
The new paperback series - Penguin English Library Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Tale of Two Cities
Explore Dickens' classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities. Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is one of injustice, revenge, rebirth, love, and sacrifice. Originally published in thirty-one weekly installments...Hardback$2600Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Tale of Two Cities
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…' A Tale of Two Cities is arguably the greatest story of mistaken identity ever told, interweaving a heart-breaking family tragedy with the bloody French Revolution. Dr Manette is released from imprisonment in the Bastille and is...Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayCharles Dickens (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)
Charles Dickens (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. Many readers know Victorian England through the writings of Charles Dickens. Not only did Dickens put a face to the era through his memorable characters, but he also...Leather / fine binding$5000Elsewhere:$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations
Puffin Classics – the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this charming edition of Great Expectations. As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life – an escaped convict he is forced to...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Old Curiosity Shop
The tale of Little Nell gripped the nation when it first appeared in 1841. Described as a "tragedy of sorrows", the story tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, the most fascinating of which is the stunted, lecherous Quilp. Blending realism with non-realistic genres such as fairy-tale,...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayThe Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens' last novel, is centred around a mystery involving a presumed crime: the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Tragically, Dickens passed away before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and prompting successive generations of readers to take on the role of detective. Beyond the engrossing nature of this intriguing crime, the novel...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOur Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend is Dickens' last completed novel, portraying a dark, macabre London. Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance—Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps—and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the River Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a dark, macabre London,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOliver Twist
Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of Oliver Twist. After Oliver Twist asks the nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets of London. Here he meets the...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksSketches by Boz
Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it, we find him walking the London streets, in theatres, pawnshops, law-courts, prisons, along the Thames, and on the omnibus, missing nothing, recording and transforming urban and suburban life...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayOliver Twist
Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none' Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayMartin Chuzzlewit
A tale of inheritance and destiny, this is the story Dickens considered his best. The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayLittle Dorrit
When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHard Times: Popular Penguins
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Christmas Carol
A beloved Christmas title—with illustrations from Hans Christian Andersen Award recipient Lisbeth Zwerger! Old miser Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. He’d rather spend his time making more money. But on Christmas Eve, he is visited by four apparitions... One of them is his late business partner and only friend, Marley. Marley makes it very clear to Scrooge that if he doesn’t...Hardback$6300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHard Times
Hard Times is set in the industrial town of Coketown, where life revolves around hard facts and rigid philosophies. The town is dominated by Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, a school headmaster and embodiment of Utilitarian principles, who feeds both his pupils and family with facts while banning fancy and wonder from young minds. As a consequence of this education, his obedient...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayHard Times
Hard Times, Dickens's satirical and enduring classic, is now available in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. This edition is part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayGreat Expectations
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story of Pip, an orphan without any expectations – he has no name, no fortune, and no prospects. It is only when he begins to visit Miss Havisham,...Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGreat Expectations
Launching a major new paperback series - Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?" she asked me, again pointing with her stick; "that, where those cobwebs are?" "I can't guess what it is, ma'am." "It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!" Great Expectations, Dickens's funny, frightening and...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDombey and Son
Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family, and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly, and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDavid Copperfield
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics, and grotesques, including the wicked Mr...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayDavid Copperfield
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a great coming-of-age novel, now available in a beautiful new clothbound edition. This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life....Hardback$5400Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBleak House
Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a Dickensian sweeping family saga, presented in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, these delectable and collectible editions are designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. They are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayBarnaby Rudge
Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel, fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters, and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets....Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips todayA Tale of Two Cities (Artisan Edition)
The beloved historical novel is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in high-school and college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. The A Tale of Two Cities softcover edition: Presents Charles Dickens's famed historical novel...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Tale of Two Cities
Launching a major new paperback series - Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks