Jean Valjean... the criminal trying to escape his reputation... Javert the police agent who is trying to trail him.... and then the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter Cosette.

This book brings out all the vivid pictures of France at the beginning of the 19th Century. The Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barracades during the July revolution.

Tantalizing unfinished, many believe Dickens' last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to be his most powerful.

An exploration of dangerous passions in a catherdral town and a mind made monstrous

With the birth of little Paul Dombey, his father, also named Paul, triumphs, declaring, 'The House will once again be... Dombey and Son!'

Indeed, those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life.

In later life and at the height of his fame, Dickens was very apologetic about his first published work - sketches by Boz - perhaps too much so.

Although they contain may examples of his inexperience, the pieces alread possessed the tell-tale Dickens tale for humour, biting satire and such vivid descriptions of people and places as to conjure them up, almost solidly before the reader.....

On the wind-swept evening of the 19th March 1775, one of the regulars of the Maypole Inn, Chigwell Essex, tells the story of how on that night exactly 23 years previously, the Catholic Reuben Haredale and his servant Barnably Rudge, were killed in a double murder.

In their Wiltshire village home, the two Pecksniff sisters Charity (or 'Cherry) and Mercy (or 'Mercy) are eagerly awaiting the of their father's new architectural apprentice. The previous incumbent John Westlock, is die to leave after on 'little differene' too many with the unctuous, hypocritical Mr Pecksniff........

Colourful ladies, hellish prisons, vast spittoons, dismal religions and the curse of slavery, but magnificent scenery and some genuine kindness.

These were the whirlwind impressions recorded by D

This is Dickens' 11th novel, and in it we meet the financially incompetent William Dorrit, an inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison. His youngest daughter, Amy, works hard to help her father where she can, but even she despairs that he will ever change.....

Written between 1860 and 1869 as a series of sketches for 'All the year round' The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of Dickens' non-fiction from the last decade of his life.

This is a vivid tale told by two narrators, Bleak House follows the lives of a group of young people who become embroiled in an interminable case being held at the Court of Chancery.