The classic story of an orphan named Pip. Pip's life was stricken with tragedy as a small boy being orphaned with the loss of his mother, father and siblings. Pip forms a relationship with the odd Miss Havisham and her lovely adopted daughter Estella. When an anonymous benefactor whisks Pip away from the life he once knew and the people he cared for to a one of class and high society. When his beloved Estella enters his life once more after many years...

One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens' great novels, 'Oliver Twist' is also famous for its re-creation of the vast 19th century London underworld of pickpockets, thieves, prostitutes and abandoned children.

For David Copperfield, orphaned and with a cruel stepfather, the future looks bleak. But a new start beckons with the magnificent Mr. Micawber, then with his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood.

Regarded by Charles Dickens as his best novel upon publication, "Martin Chuzzlewit" relates a tale of familial selfishness and eventual moral redemption. First published serially from 1842 to 1844, it is the story of young Martin Chuzzlewit, who has been raised by his grandfather. He has fallen in love with his grandfather's ward and caretaker, the young orphan Mary Graham. Martin's grandfather does not approve and young Martin alienates himself from...

"When it comes to walking the mean streets, Dickens could give modern genre authors the tour of their lives." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times When a corpse is found in the Thames River and identified as John Harmon, many lives will be forever changed. John, who had been abroad and estranged from his miserly father for years, will no longer collect his inheritance. It will instead go to the miser's employees, Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, transforming...

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Nicholas Nickleby includes a Foreword and Biographical Note. When...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

Charles Dickens's first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (The Pickwick Papers) is a series of loosely-related stories about Pickwick Club founder Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, and the gentlemen of his acquaintance, including Augustus Snodgrass and Tracy Tupman, and his manservant, Sam Weller. Originally published as a serial between 1836 and 1837, The Pickwick Papers became a publishing phenomenon after the introduction of Sam Weller...

"A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" by Charles Dickens is a timeless novella that encapsulates the holiday spirit through Ebenezer Scrooge's transformative journey. Set on a haunting Christmas Eve, the story follows Scrooge, an old man known for his miserly and cold-hearted ways, as he is visited by spectral apparitions: his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Encountering...