Throughout the novel, Charles Dickens is able to portray the hardships of each social class during the trying times of the French Revolution in a way that is both profoundly elegant and heartbreaking at the same time.

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist includes: • The complete, unabridged text (from the final edition Dickens oversaw in 1865) • 44 full-color illustrations by George Cruikshank and Frederick W. ...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Christmas Carol’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Charles Dickens’.

Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life.

Charles Dickens was fascinated by Thomas Carlyle’s magnum opus The French Revolution; according to Dickens’ letters, he read it “500 times” and carried it with him everywhere while he was working on this novel.

From young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, the novel is ...