Young orphan Philip Pirrip – known lovingly as Pip – lives with his borderline abusive elder sister, who also doubles as a flawed mother figure. Narrated in the first person by Pip, Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is a story of ambition and opportunities. Despite being relegated by birth to lowly circumtances, Pip dream big. One day, luck seems to turn in his favour, and Pip’s prosp…
‘It was a town of machinery and tall chimney… inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours… to do the same work, and to whom everyday was the same as yesterday and tomorrow…’ Charles Dickens’s Hard Times is a satirical portrayal of the deleterious effect of the Industrial Revolution and Capitalism. Following the lives of its unforgett…
‘But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!’ The character of Ebenezer Scrooge has become an archetype for the merciless miser. He was a man quite content with utter disregard for the welfare of those around him. A smile, a warm greeting or a kind word were all incomprehensible to old Scrooge. …
‘it was the best of times, it was the wors of times, It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…’ A Tale of Two Cities is a remarkable work of historical fiction set in the period prior to and during the French Revolution. The story follow the Manette family, and their friends from the peaceful lanes of London…
‘…the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshess to man…’ Charles Dickens’s framous classic Oliver Twist is the tale of the eponymous hero – an orphaned boy whose life is beset by adversities and trials. Set in the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, the book captures the gritty realities of 19th-century England. Dickens pulls you into …