Author: Charles Dickens

Sketches of Young Gentlemen, like its counterpart, Sketches by Boz, is a series of miniature portraits of mid-nineteenth century England from the p...

Christmas, for Charles Dickens, was a magical time, when people opened ‘shuttered-up hearts’, and let the threads of their lives become entangled w...

The traditional Christmas classic novel by Charles Dickens adapted for the stage by award-winning playwright Gary Owen. Tucked up in his old, decay...

"Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris." This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Be...

Perfect for pupils aged 11+, this stage version of Dickens' classic tale uses John Mortimer's much-loved dramatisation first produced by the RSC in...

Introduced by bestselling author Roddy Doyle.Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, different in character and in love with the ...

The editor has corrected printers’ errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions. Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliv...

Written just after "David Copperfield", at the same time as "Bleak House", and in the engaging and conversational style typical of his most celebra...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on...

'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing t...

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting...

'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire TomalinCharles Dickens's first published book, ...

Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and ...

Rediscover the novel behind the hit new film. ...

'Dickens's chilling tale of murder and betrayal' Sunday Times ...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a ...