"Little Dorrit" is one of the most remarkable and profound novels of the great English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It was written in 1855-1857. The m...

Years pass, tastes change, but nothing can overshadow the brilliant image of the enthusiastic and naive eccentric Mr. Pickwick - the fruit of the fiction of ...

One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the h...

The anthology offered to the attention of readers includes stories and short stories by English and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, dedicate...

A collection of mystical, mysterious and creepy stories about ghosts, vampires, witches, the living dead, destructive statues and mannequins, nightmares and ...

One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the h...

Great Expectations chronicles the progress of Pip from childhood through adulthood. As he moves from the marshes of Kent to London society, he encounters ...

Mr. Dombey, a wealthy London merchant, puts all his hopes in his sickly son Paul to succeed him in running the firm, and ignores his good daughter Florenc...

Translation of Irinarch Vvedensky (1850) in modern spelling with minor modernizing editing. Korney Chukovsky about Vvedensky’s translation: “Although there a...

The "Christmas Stories" were written by Dickens in the 40s ("A Christmas Carol" - 1843, "The Bells" - 1844, "The Cricket on the Hearth" - 1845, "The Battle o...