The Dickens Library

In which we find our narrator wrestling with his own self-deceptions and uneasy associations as he journeys by coach through a bleak and wintry landscape, notably sharing space with two convicts, whos...

29 Marras 202515min

In which we receive a heartfelt letter announcing a visitor from the past, whose unpretentious manner and earnestness stir in our narrator a conflicted mixture of uneasy anticipation and affectionate ...

29 Marras 202520min

In which we are invited into the curious domestic arrangements of my guardian, where his meticulous habits and austere hospitality set a peculiar tone for an evening of dining and discourse. Among the...

29 Marras 202518min

In which we become acquainted with the contrasts among a trio of young men and find companionship and kindness in a friend’s company, while also entering the peculiar but warm domestic world of a civi...

29 Marras 202518min

In which we observe the young gentleman settling into his new surroundings and undertaking the earnest pursuit of education under the vigilant guidance of a devoted tutor, while navigating the practic...

29 Marras 202515min

In which we take our first curious steps into the Pocket household, a place of genteel pretensions and private disorder, peopled by a family whose affections and ambitions are as tangled as their dome...

29 Marras 202520min

In which we meet a spirited young man named Herbert Pocket, whose easy friendliness and earnest ambitions introduce the social intricacies and subdued dramas of London life. Over a humble yet lively m...

29 Marras 202530min

In which we accompany our young narrator through the dingy, melancholy streets of London and its shabby lodgings, introduced by the peculiar and somewhat mechanical Mr Wemmick, whose countenance bears...

29 Marras 202511min