Great Expectations

Book Introduction

Title: Great Expectations
Difficulty: Lexile 1150
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher Name: Signet Classics
Publication time: 2009
Language: English
Product size: 10.8 x 2.2 x 17.6 cm
Packing: Softcover
Number of pages: 510

Perhaps Dickens’s best-loved work,Great Expectations is a powerful and moving novel suffused with the author’s memories of the past and its grip on the present.
One of the most popular novelists ever, Charles Dickens wrote about what he saw in 19th century London: orphans, child labor, and the crime that was rampant in the city at the time. In the 1861 bestseller Great Expectations, he wove all of these themes into a tale of mystery and personal development. The story of a young orphan boy—poor and alone, but whisked away to London by a anonymous benefactor—is a fantastic tale, complete with plot twists and a love story that puts many modern novels to shame. To this day,Great Expectations remains one of Dickens’s greatest achievements.
With an Introduction by Stanley Weintraub and an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff

A Tale of Two Cities

Book Introduction

Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher Name: Signet Classics
Publication time: 2007
Language: English
Product size: 10.6 x 2.8 x 17.3 cm
Packing: Softcover
Number of pages: 379

The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... 

The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. 

With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning. 

With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson 

Oliver Twist

Book Introduction

Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher Name: Signet Classics
Publication time: 1982
Language: English
Product size: 17.4 x 2.6 x 10.6cm
Packing: Softcover
Number of pages: 480

Oliver Twist "Orphan in the Fog" is a realistic novel published by British writer Dickens in 1838. With the foggy London as the background, it tells the tragic life and experience of an orphan. The protagonist Oliver grew up in an orphanage, experienced an apprenticeship, fleeing hard, strayed into the den of thieves, and was forced to work with vicious assailants. After bitterness, with the help of kind people, he found out his life experience and obtained happiness.

"The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads."--William Makepeace Thackeray

Named a "national institution" by George Orwell, Dickens offers his most popular tale, of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London-a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story.