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The byzantine legal suit of Jarndyce vs.

A bitter old miser gets visited by a bunch of gnarly ghosts on Christmas Eve and decides to stop being such a jerk to his secretary.

When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station.

A richly-woven and moving tale set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution.

Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.

Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season.

David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms h

Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career.

If there is one person to whom Lady Marlowe would rather not owe her life, it is the Duke of Buckington, a man she detests.

The riches to rags to riches again story of a film star and her family and their coming to terms with a homosexual son and tragedy.

This is the story of a successful business man faced with the death of his wife from cancer, a custody suit for her child, and the adjustment to his life this causes.

Contemporary novel of two people from different worlds whose lives are changed by 'five days in Paris'.

A thrilling story set against the background of England, India and 19th Century Hong Kong.

In order to save his ancestral home and estate, the Earl of Irchester must do the unthinkable and marry the daughter of Groon, the most notorious Usurer in the whole of 19th century London.

The war with Napoleon won, the Earl of Hellington begins another campaign, the pursuit of a pretty yet infuriating young milliner who evades all his attempts to make her his mistress.