Vintage Classics Library

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of...

Dickens at Christmas

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you`ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows,...

Dubliners

George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London

`You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business`As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his...

Hard Times

Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of nice Mr Bingley...

Selected Stories

Tess of the DUrbervilles``