Nicholas Nickleby' combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity, where Nickleby succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to...

The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has ground its way through the courts for generations. At its heart are Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, who find love - and terrible loss - through their...

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father’s will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly...