Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew ……続きを見る
David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a c……続きを見る
Martin Chuzzlewit was written in the year 1844 by Charles Dickens. This book is one of the most popular novels of Charles Dickens, and has been translated into several other languages around the wor……続きを見る
The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Ha……続きを見る
In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens chronicles the life of Pip, an ordinary country boy led astray by the trappings of London society as well as his desire to improve himself and become a gentlem……続きを見る
David Copperfield is the unforgettable story of David’s pursuit of his dream of being a successful writer. Following David from his impoverished childhood to his encounters with the memorable Uriah ……続きを見る
David Copperfield is the unforgettable story of David’s pursuit of his dream of being a successful writer. Following David from his impoverished childhood to his encounters with the memorable Uriah ……続きを見る
Charles Dickens’s shortest novel, Hard Times presents a harsh appraisal of English society during the Industrial Revolution. Set in fictitious Coketown, Hard Times tells the story of Thomas Gradgrin……続きを見る
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Martin Chuzzlewit) was serialized between 1843 and 1844, and is considered to be one of Charles Dickens’s last picaresque novels. Raised by his grandfat……続きを見る
Charles Dickens’s second novel, Oliver Twist is one of the author’s best known and loved works. With colourful and memorable characters like Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Oliver himself, Oliver Twis……続きを見る
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities. Published in 31 weekly installments from April to November 1859, A Tale of Two Cities……続きを見る
Widely considered to be Dickens’s greatest satire on poverty, Little Dorrit is the story of Amy “Little” Dorrit’s struggle to hold her poverty-stricken family together in the face of her father’s im……続きを見る
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens’ work, the book is used to call the public’s attention to various contemporary social ……続きを見る
Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the ……続きを見る
In the gripping drama No Thoroughfare, two of the Victorian era's most popular writers -- Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens -- team up to tell a tale of mistaken identity and miscommunication. The ……続きを見る
The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. His Uncle Ralph, who thinks Nicholas will never amount to……続きを見る
Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune in a workhouse in an unnamed town. Orphaned almost from his first breath by his mother's death in childbirth and his father's unexplained a……続きを見る
"Our Mutual Friend" is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words "mone……続きを見る
The tale begins on a "cold, bleak, biting" Christmas Eve exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first chapter as "……続きを見る
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One da……続きを見る
One New Year's Eve, Trotty, a "ticket-porter" or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes are simply w……続きを見る
Martin Chuzzlewit was raised by his grandfather and namesake. Years before, Martin senior takes the precaution of raising an orphaned girl, Mary. She is to be his nursemaid, with the understanding t……続きを見る
In the industrial city of Coketown, Josiah Bounderby is a rich and fairly obnoxious factory owner and banker. He loves to tell everyone he meets about how he grew up in the gutter, abused by a drunk……続きを見る
"Great Expectations" is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and ……続きを見る
Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey……続きを見る
Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew ……続きを見る
Le premier jet de lumière qui convertit en une clarté brillante les ténèbres dont paraissait enveloppée l’apparition de l’immortel Pickwick sur l’horizon du monde ……続きを見る
Quel jour du mois et de l’année ? Le 13 Novembre 1835. Quelle heure ? Dix heures du soir sonnant à la grande horloge de St. Paul.
En même temps toutes les églises de la ville ouvrent leurs gosiers d……続きを見る
Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mer……続きを見る
