Three of the brilliant novelist’s best-known classics in one volume, offering a wide-ranging portrait of nineteenth-century British society.
A perfect introduction to the world of Charles Dickens, this volume contains three of his greatest novels.
Little Dorrit: An epic tale of two families in Victorian England, one wealthy and the other living in a debtors’ prison, and their shifting fortunes.
David Copperfield: A sprawling masterpiece—and the inspiration for the new film starring Dev Patel—about a boy making his way to manhood in nineteenth-century England.
Hard Times: A young girl from the circus world is taken in by a repressed school superintendent and his family in a dreary mill town—and brings unexpected change to their lives.
An international celebrity during his lifetime, Charles Dickens (1812–1870) is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His classic works include A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities, one of the bestselling novels of all time. When Dickens was twelve years old, his father was sent to debtors’ prison, and the boy was forced to work in a boot-blacking factory to support his family. The experience greatly shaped both his fiction and his tireless advocacy for children’s rights and social reform.