Russell's ebook Library
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Often considered Charles Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House blends together several literary genres — detective fiction, romance, melodrama, and satire — to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption at the heart of English law and ...
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful author.
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a "study in human weakness and the slow human surrender," may be called Charles Dickens's finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict sp...
Hard Times
Charles Dickens and Frederick Busch and Jane Smiley
Reason, Facts, and statistics...Dickens’ scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled ...
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.Little Nell Trent lives in the quie...
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
One of Dickens’s most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, "Please, sir, I want some more." After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Vict...
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras — the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the gui...
