StoryPDFA Christmas CarolCharles Dickens✦
A Christmas Carol
Ready to readRead now Continue readingFollow the movement between financial accounting and human obligation through the contrasting Christmas households.
28,492 words · About 2 h 10 min
Read Charles Dickens novels and stories
12 complete reading editions
Dickens’s fiction ranges from a short Christmas ghost story to crowded novels of childhood, inheritance, work and institutions. Great Expectations stays close to Pip’s changing account of himself, while Bleak House combines a personal narrative with a wider view of a long-running court case.
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StoryPDFA Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens✦
A Tale of Two Cities
Ready to readRead now Continue readingFollow interlocking lives across London and Paris as private loyalty meets the violence of historical reckoning.
136,055 words · About 10 h 18 min
StoryPDFBleak HouseCharles Dickens✦
Bleak House
Ready to readRead now Continue readingTrace connections across the two narrative voices while considering how a lawsuit can consume the lives it supposedly exists to settle.
355,053 words · About 26 h 54 min
StoryPDFDavid CopperfieldCharles Dickens✦
David Copperfield
Ready to readRead now Continue readingFollow an expansive life story in which childhood memory, comic encounters, work, and emotional mistakes shape a developing writer.
356,312 words · About 27 h
Great Expectations
Ready to readRead now Continue readingRead for the uneasy relationship between social ambition and gratitude, seen through a narrator learning to question his younger judgments.
185,225 words · About 14 h 2 min
StoryPDFHard TimesCharles Dickens✦
Hard Times
Ready to readRead now Continue readingCompare the language of measurable facts with the experiences that Gradgrind's educational principles cannot accommodate.
103,279 words · About 7 h 49 min
StoryPDFLittle DorritCharles Dickens✦
Little Dorrit
Ready to readRead now Continue readingExplore a world of debt and bureaucracy where apparent freedom can conceal obligations as confining as prison walls.
338,849 words · About 25 h 40 min
StoryPDFNicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens✦
Nicholas Nickleby
Ready to readRead now Continue readingFollow a spirited family adventure across abusive schooling, theatrical life, and the clash between financial power and practical generosity.
324,236 words · About 24 h 34 min
StoryPDFOliver TwistCharles Dickens✦
Oliver Twist
Ready to readRead now Continue readingCompare institutional charity with actual kindness as a vulnerable child moves between the workhouse and London’s criminal households.
156,959 words · About 11 h 53 min
StoryPDFOur Mutual FriendCharles Dickens✦
Our Mutual Friend
Ready to readRead now Continue readingRead an inheritance mystery that connects London's fashionable rooms to river work, discarded objects, and the uncertain value of appearances.
326,094 words · About 24 h 42 min
StoryPDFThe Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens✦
The Pickwick Papers
Ready to readRead now Continue readingCompare Pickwick's generous assumptions with Sam Weller's practical readings of people, language and social situations.
298,943 words · About 22 h 39 min
StoryPDFThe SignalmanCharles Dickens✦
The Signalman
Ready to readRead now Continue readingNotice how ordinary railway signals differ from the warnings the signalman cannot translate into useful action.
5,094 words · About 23 min