Charles Dickens

A trusting traveller meets deception and trouble across southern England.

An orphan faces hunger, cruelty and London's criminal world.

A young man struggles to support his family against cruelty.

A girl and her grandfather flee debts and a moneylender.

A young man is swept into London's anti-Catholic riots.

A miser faces ghostly visions of Christmas and his life.

A family's hunger for money exposes selfishness and deceit.

A poor messenger faces visions that test his faith in others.

A husband's suspicions test the trust within his home.

A businessman prizes his son and neglects his loving daughter.

Two sisters face conflicting claims of love and duty.

A lonely teacher bargains to forget his painful past.

A boy grows up through hardship, friendship, and mistaken trust.

A drawn-out lawsuit entangles families while hidden connections emerge.

A father's rule of facts leaves little room for feeling.

A daughter supports her family in the shadow of debt.

Lives in London and Paris entwine during the French Revolution.

A poor orphan gains wealth and longs to become a gentleman.

A disputed inheritance entangles Londoners in money, mystery, and love.

A mistaken identity links an inheritance to danger in the Alps.

A young man's disappearance exposes tensions in a cathedral town.

An old man and his friends gather to share stories.

An empty house links stories of the people behind its doors.

An insurance man looks for crime behind a gentleman’s manners.

Three tales bring ghosts into ordinary Victorian lives.

A British visitor examines American life and its claims of liberty.

A wandering observer records city life, journeys and memories.