Major Works of Charles Dickens 5 Books Collection Boxed Set (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Hard Times & Oliver Twist):
Titles in this set:
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
Description:
Great Expectations
Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young lad, who grows up without any expectations, but is surprised to hear from a lawyer that he has an unknown benefactor who is sending him to London to learn to become a gentleman. But the great expectations that he has change him, leading him almost to the brink of death, and in the course of events, Pip learns a number of lessons about life, loyalty and true happiness.
A Tale of Two Cities
"It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known" is perhaps one of literature's most famous lines.Spoken by the dissolute barrister Sydney Carton as he goes to his death at the guillotine, it sees the end of a passionate story that moves between two great European capitals, London and Paris, before and during the French Revolution.
A Christmas Carol
Reading A Christmas Carol has become for many a tradition during the festive season. The character of Ebenezer Scrooge has become the epitome of miserliness. But A Christmas Carol is a story of redemption as Scrooge is visited in turn by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
Hard Times
A powerful and courageous work of fiction, Hard Times looks at working conditions in a Victorian factory town in the industrial north of England. It's an extraordinary novel that considers how enslavement to systems at the expense of imagination and feeling can wreck human lives. This edition celebrates Charles Dickens' most openly campaigning novel, through which the author said he aimed to 'strike the heaviest blow in my power'.
Oliver Twist
Please, sir, I want some more.' Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a hero, it was Dickens' first attempt to rouse the public conscience over the social evils of his day. A parade of memorable characters drives the author's message home: Mr Bumble, the workhouse beadle; Fagin, who runs a den of child thieves.
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