Young Copperfield's life is happy at first, but he is forced to run away from his home following the arrival of his stepfather. David is then adopted by his aunt, Betsey Trotwood, sent to school at Canterbury and meets the unctuous Uriah Heep, whose activities lead eventually to David's self-discovery.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood.

Four bumbling members of a nineteenth-century London social club, known as the legendary Pickwick Club, journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic foibles, danger, and a few legal scrapes.

Dickens' own childhood and youth are reflected in his novel of David Copperfield's early adventures and marriage

When his impoverished mother dies during childbirth, it would seem things could not be worse for the young unnamed protagonist of this classic novel. However, the child -- given the Oliver Twist by a government functionary -- is thrust into a world with little sympathy for poor orphans, and he decscends into a tortuous world of mean spirited caretakers. The spirited innocent breaks away to make his own way in the hustle-bustle of London, falling...

Retells six novels of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations; David Copperfield; Oliver Twist; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby

The inhabitants of two cities--including a doctor, his devoted daughter, the young French aristocrat she loves, and their English friend--are swept into the tide of the French Revolution