It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. The year was 1775 and Lucie Manette, a young self-sacrificing orphan, realised she had been living a lie. Her father, Doctor Manette, whom she had taken for...
David Copperfield lives happily with his mother until she decides to marry the tyrannical Edward Murdstone. Abused and ill-treated by his stepfather, David is sent to the Salem House, a boarding school where he makes friends with the self-centered James Steerforth and...
Great Expectations revolves around the life of an orphan nicknamed Pip. The novel, set in the 19th century, traces the psychological growth of Pip in three stages: his childhood in the marshes of Kent, his journey from the rural environs to the London metropolis, and...