Oliver Twist Audiobook, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens. Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a...

Dickens wrote this book for his own children trying to cultivate interest in both history and literature. A Child's History was included in the curricula of British schoolchildren...

Orphaned by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's mysterious absence, Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in the care of Mrs Mann. He is later sent to a...

The central theme of Bleak House is satirical exposure of the English Chancery court system. Chancery or equity courts were one half of the English civil justice system, existing...

Little Oliver Twist, abused, starved and overworked, runs away to London after being bullied. In London he is taken in by Fagin, a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of...

The final unfinished novel by Charles Dickens leaving the identity of the murderer unresolved. The story is set in Cloisterham, a disguised Rochester. Drood's uncle, John Jasper...

The novel follows several characters including Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature,...

Hard Times is Dickens' only novel not to have scenes set in London. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian Coketown and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic...

Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775, are John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three...