Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw

'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy

In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling

Samuel Pickwick is the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He and his fellow Pickwickians travel to the far-flung corners of London in search of adventure – luckily for the gentlemen, amusement and hilarity are never in short supply. Along their way, they encounter plenty of characters – from villains who land them in deep trouble to one woman who sues Pickwick to force him into marriage, providing the Pickwickians with plenty of tales to entertain.

Episode List
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Episode 1: Released on September 6, 2012. 46 pages. Chapters 1 and 2, originally released in March 1836.
Episode 2: Released on September 13, 2012. 51 pages. Chapters 3 - 5, originally released in April 1836.
Episode 3: Released on September 19, 2012. 63 pages. Chapters 6 - 8, originally released in May 1836.
Episode 4: Released on September 26, 2012. 63 pages. Chapters 9 - 11, originally released in June 1836.
Episode 5: Released on October 3, 2012. 64 pages. Chapters 12 - 14, originally released in July 1836.
Episode 6: Released on October 10, 2012. 63 pages. Chapters 15 - 17, originally released in August 1836.
Episode 7: Released on October 17, 2012. 61 pages. Chapters 18 - 20, originally released in September 1836.
Episode 8: Released on October 24, 2012. 66 pages. Chapters 21 - 23, originally released in October 1836.
Episode 9: Released on October 31, 2012. 60 pages. Chapters 24 - 26, originally released in November 1836.
Episode 10: Released on November 7, 2012. 50 pages. Chapters 27 and 28, originally released in December 1836.
Episode 11: Released on November 14, 2012. 57 pages. Chapters 29 - 31, originally released in January 1837.
Episode 12: Released on November 21,2012. 46 pages. Chapters 32 and 33, originally released in February 1837.
Episode 13: Released on November 28, 2012. 79 pages. Chapters 34 - 36, originally released in March 1837.
Episode 14: Released on December 5, 2012. 65 pages. Chapters 37 - 39, originally released in April 1837.
Episode 15: Released on December 12, 2012. 62 pages. Chapters 40 - 42, originally released in June 1837.
Episode 16: Released on December 19, 2012. 66 pages. Chapters 43 - 45, originally released in July 1837.
Episode 17: Released on December 27, 2012. 53 pages. Chapters 46 - 48, originally released in August 1837.
Episode 18: Released on January 2, 2013. 79 pages. Chapters 49 - 51, originally released in September 1837.
Episodes 19 & 20: Released on January 9, 2013. 78 pages. Chapters 52 - 57. Originally released together in October 1837

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Orphaned at birth to labor in a workhouse, Oliver Twist is barely ten when he flees for London. There he befriends young Jack Dawkins, who educates the innocent Oliver in the ways of survival. When Jack draws Oliver into a gang of juvenile pickpockets, tutored by the unscrupulous Fagin, Oliver’s corruptive influences grow. But for a boy taught only wrong, Oliver must hold on to what he knows is right.

In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens furiously condemns the realities of nineteenth-century England and rewards those who can escape them still pure at heart.

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In Coketown, England, wealthy retiree Thomas Gradgrind has founded a school based on his belief that life should be factual—not fanciful. Among his pupils are his children, Thomas and Louisa, who are raised on his teachings of rational self-interest and grow into loveless, despairing adults. As he bears witness to his children’s suffering, Gradgrind is forced to confront the dangers of his dispassionate, utilitarian philosophy.

Published serially in 1854 and packed with page-turning cliff-hangers, Hard Times explores representatives of English society—the disappearing aristocracy, the growing middle class, indigent laborers, and nomadic circus people—as they navigate the ways of Victorian England during the Industrial Revolution.

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