Charles Dickens Plot Summaries

An interesting piece of social activism by Dickens. It allows us to glimpse what Sundays were like for Londoners in Victorian England.

Dickens' first great success: not really a novel but rather a collection of character sketches and adventures befalling the members of the Pickwick Club.

The classic novel about Oliver the poorhouse boy, and his adventurous among the London underworld.

The biography of the great clown, Joseph Grimaldi edited and partially rewritten by Dickens.

Nell and her grandfather are pursued by the evil hunchback Mr. Quilp through a a grotesque London inhabited by eccentric characters.

Dickens's classic and sentimental novel about the ghosts of Christmas who help an old Scrooge find salvation. This story is credited with reviving the practice of celebrating Christmas which had fallen into disuse in England, and has also spawned countless movie and television adaptatiopns and rip offs.

A travelogue of Charles Dickens journey through Italy in 1844.

Dickens' semi-autobiographical novel set in industrial England.

Dickens' influential overview of English history beginning with the Roman era has shaped our view of England's royalty and their deeds. We are proud to present an illustrated edition of the classic work by Charles Dickens.

Probably my favourite Dickens novel: a story about a endless court case over a disputed inheritance, and the lives destroyed by folly and a broken judicial system.

A melodramatic tale about two lovers caught up in the French Revolution.

One of Dickens' greatest novels, full of unforgettable characters such as Pip and Miss Havisham.

A short Christmas book for children about a princess who finds a magic fishbone.