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In "David Copperfield" (1849), once again, issues of class and the differences between public and private standards (represented in the corruption of ... More

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Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" - now a major new film from director Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Harry Potter") - charts the ... More

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Written in 1839, "Nicholas Nickleby" combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity, where Nickleby succeeds despite poverty, the ... More

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Jacob Flanders first appears as a child playing by the seaside. The novel follows his progress to school, to Cambridge, to London, Paris, Italy, ... More

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Wuthering Heights is a house on the lonely moors of Yorkshire. Here a tragic love story unfolds as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe fall in love, ... More

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"The Pickwick Papers" has delighted readers since its first publication with the comedic adventures of the unforgettable members of the Pickwick Club ... More

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Mrs Bennet wants all of her five daughters to marry and to marry well. When two rich young men come to the village, Mrs Bennet is sure that they will ... More

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Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ... More

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Dickens's huge, rambling novel tells the story of the Nickleby family after the death of the father, when the family is tyrannized by their nefarious ... More

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Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family ... More

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Ernest Pontifex, son of a bullying clergyman, leads a life of disarray. Ernest struggles with orthodoxy, lives in the slums, is thrown into prison, ... More

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2 ... More

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) wanted his last novel 'to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of ... More

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Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living ... More

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Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses ... More

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Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of ... More

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A story of Victorian love in England. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love but will they marry? A level 2 ... More

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This complex, sombre work, haunted by the symbol of the prison, is more than any other Dickens novel a study of society. George Bernard Shaw called ... More

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Title: The Personal History of David Copperfield.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of ... More

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Following on from the success of The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Hesperus presents another collaboration between Charles Dickens and Wilkie ... More

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A. S. Byatt provides an introduction to one of the most popular novels in English literature, George Eliot's Middlemarch.

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