Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of govermental failures shape his satirical picture of the Circ…
Our Mutual Friend, Dickens' last novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not just through its central narratives, but through its apparently incidental characters and scenes. The chief of its several plots centres on John Harmon who returns to England as his father's heir. He is bel…
Bleak House is one of Dickens's finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its representations of a great city's dark underworld, and of the law's corruption and delay…
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, whose unfailing love fo her father goes unreturned. 'Girls,' said Mr Dombey, 'have nothing to do with Dombey and Son.' When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her farher's office, rescues her from a bewilderin…
The Old Curiosity Shop with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the n…
This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men - one French, one English, but very similar in appearance - are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like the people of France, are faced with the dangers of life at a time when the guillotine never rests.
Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first year are cold and lonely - and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. Then try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life?
Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn't like people. He really doesn't like Christmas. But then some ghosts visit him. They show him his past life, now, and possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could itu have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea peison? As Arthur gets to know the Do…
Great Expectations, adalah sebuah cerita menarik tentang anak laki-laki yang dipanggil Pip. Orangtuanya telah meninggal dan ia tumbuh sendirian di lingkungan perumahan padat di Essec. Pip mencuri makanan untuk membantu pelarian seorang penjahat, Provis, tetapi kemudian berpikir tidak akan melakukannya lagi. Pip memiliki mimpi-mimpi besar menjadi ksatria untuk dapat menikahi Estella, wanita yang…