Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted envir…
In Hard Times, says George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens means to show us "that it is not our disorder but our order that is horrible; that it is not our criminals but our magnates that are robbing…
After four years' separation, Alison had been forced to return to her husband Dirk du Bois; blackmailed by his threat to take their little son away from her if she didn't agree. But it was clear th…
After only a few days of marriage, Tanya had been separated from her husband Adrian and trapped ini her own country behind the Iron Curtain. Now, years later, she had managed to escape and had soug…
Impulsive, passionate, live-wire Zoe was the exact opposite of her more realistic boy-friend, Ben. But together they made a perfect team - both in and out of bed. They had plans to tkae them down t…
She was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and …
"Little Dorrit" stands in Dickens's life chiefly as a signal of how far he went down the road of realism, of sadness and of what is called modernity
Hannah and Grand agreed on one thing: marriage was invariably a mistake which people shouldn't make more than once. What was more, Hannah was perfectly happy with her job and peaceful state of spin…
In a time of war, their romance is legend --- until a lost past returns to Duncan and labels Amber his enemy. But he cannot forsake the beautiful woman who has healed his body and his heart. He vow…