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Great Expectations
A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman
A Tale of Two Cities
Penguin Classics relaunch.
Oliver Twist
Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most …
Little Dorrit
'In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached' George OrwellA masterly evocation of the state and psychology of …
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true …
The Nun
In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause celebre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, …
Nicholas Nickleby
'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. WilsonThe hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is …
The Old Curiosity Shop
'His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth RendellThe Old Curiosity Shop was an instant …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Collects a number of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes as he is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, confronted by his archenemy Professor Moriarty, and outwitted by the most unlikely …
Bleak House
Textual notes and a Dickens chronology accompany this satire of Victorian society built around an interminable suit at the Court of Chancery.
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French …