The Pickwick Papers - The title character is the president of his London club. Travels with fellow members, Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, and Augustus Snodgrass to sites in provincial England. During these travels, the group foil the attempt of Alfred Jingle to elope with Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell. , Oliver Twist - The title character is an orphan living in a workhouse, he horrifies Mr. Bumble by asking for more food. He runs away to London joins up with pickpocket Jack Dawkins (Artful Dodger) who leads him a group of criminals lead by Fagan. He is temporarily rescued by Mr.Brownlos. Bill Sakes and a prostitute Nancy return him to Fagan. In the end the title character lives with Mr. Brownlow and Rose, who is his aunt., Nichloas Nickleby - The title character's father dies and he is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall by his uncle Ralph. He runs away with the help of disabled Smike to London. His sister Kate works at the milliner Madame Mantalini. In the end He marries Madeline Bry and Kate weds Frank., The Old Curiosity Shop - Nell Trent lives with her grandfather, a gambler who owns a London shop fill with mysterious and horrible objects. He loses his shop to evil moneylender Daniel Quilp. Nell's brother Fredrick plots to marry her off to Dick Swiveller to get a treasure. Dick marries a servant girl, Quilp drowns, Nell dies and so does her grandfather., A Christmas Carol - A miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley. Marley wears chains a symbol of greed, tells Ebenezer he will be visited by three Spirits. Ghost of Christmas Past, shows him a party given by his former employer Mr. Fezziwig and his fiancee Belle left him. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows him the homes of his nephew Fred and his clerk Bob Cratchit who Son Tiny Tim is near death. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come show him the grave of an unloved man - Scrooge himself. Scrooge has a change of heart celebrates Christmas. Tiny Tim lives. , David Copperfield - Dicken's favorite book and most autobiographical. The title character's father dies, his mother marries cruel Mr. Murdstone. Sent to a school where is he tormented by the head master Creakle, makes friends with Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth.  Works in London, finds his great aunt Betsey Trotwood, who arranges him to be educated by lawyer Mr. Wickfield. In the end he marries Agnes, Mr. Wickfield's daughter and becomes a successful novelist., Bleak House - Novel revolves around family members fight over an inheritance for many years. The home owned by John Jarndyce, cares for his young relatives Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. , Hard Times - Thomas Gradgrind is a fact-obsessed superintendent of a school whose students include an ambitious boy, Blitzer and Sissy Jupe, a member fo Mr. Sleary's traveling circus. Gradgrind arranges for his daughter Lousia to marry Josh Bounderby, a unpleasant older banker who employs Grandgrind's son Tom. A politician James Harthouse tries to seduce Lousia, she returns home and causes Grandgrind to see the error of his ways. Tom steals from Bounderby, and flees for America., A Tale of Two Cities - This novel starts with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" The two cities are Paris and London. A French doctor Alexandre Manette is released from the Bastille, he was there to prevent him from revealing the crimes of the Evremonde family. He moves to England with his daughter Lucie and Jarvis Lorry's help. Lucie marries Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who is a member of the Evremonde family. Charles returns to Paris during the French Revolution. Charles is arrested as the result of a vendetta against the Evremonde family by the Defarges, a couple who encode information about their enemies into Madame Defarge's knitting. An Englishman, Sidney Carton (who looks like Charles) takes Charles' place in jail, and goes to the guillotine thinking "It is a far far better thing that I do , than I have ever done" Lucie and Charles escape with the help of Miss Pross, who shoots Madame Defarge., Great Expectations - Narrator Pip (Philip Pirrip) is brought up by his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery ( a blacksmith). Pip helps escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Pip is hired to play with Estella at Satis House, whose owner Miss Havisham who was spurned on her wedding day and has "worn a wedding dress every since". Pip learns from a lawyer Mr. Jaggers, that he has a mysterious benefactor who funds his education. Pip thinks the benefactor is Miss Havisham, who wants to make him a "gentleman" so he can marry Estella. Estella marries wealthy Bentley Drummie, who mistreats her. The benefactor is the convict Magwitch. Pip tries to help him escape England with the help of Pip's friends Startop and Herbert Pocket. The man who jilted Miss Havisham, Compeyson foiled the escape. Pip's great expectations are dashed, but he becomes a better person, is reunited with widowed Estella. ,

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