Charles Dickens
85 books
General Fiction
499
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (version 3)
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be...
39 hours 25 minutes
Family Life
461
Charles Dickens - Cricket on the Hearth (Version 2)
The tale of John Peerybingle, the good-hearted carrier, and his young wife Mary ('Dot'), interwoven with the story of poor toymaker Caleb Plummer, his beloved blind daughter Bertha, and the harsh old toy merchant...
3 hours 54 minutes
General Fiction
567
Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2)
Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the death of Nicholas’s father, they find themselves penniless, and travel to...
35 hours 36 minutes
*Non-fiction
567
Charles Dickens - American Notes for General Circulation
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if...
11 hours 11 minutes
General Fiction
540
Charles Dickens - Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of...
3 hours 43 minutes
General Fiction
584
Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol (Version 03)
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his ways and has three spirits visit him on the night of Christmas Eve....
2 hours 38 minutes
