The Dickens Library

In which a young and hopeful medical practitioner receives an unexpected and mysterious visitor cloaked in mourning, whose urgent yet elusive request leads him into the bleak outskirts of Walworth to ...

18 Sep 26min

In which the respectable Malderton family, eager to secure a suitable match for their eldest daughter Teresa, become enchanted by the seemingly genteel and eloquent Mr. Horatio Sparkins, whose presenc...

17 Sep 35min

In which the respectable Tuggs family, newly enriched and eager to leave their grocer’s shop behind, embark upon a genteel seaside sojourn at Ramsgate, where their attempts at refinement are both earn...

16 Sep 46min

In which we observe the fastidious and lavender-scented Misses Crumpton presiding over their finishing school for young ladies, where society’s notions of propriety and accomplishment are delicately p...

15 Sep 27min

In which the fastidious and solitary Mr. Augustus Minns, a government clerk of exacting habits and aversions, is reluctantly drawn into the boisterous and convivial domestic sphere of his garrulous co...

14 Sep 23min

In which the curious domestic affairs of a bustling boarding-house are unfolded, introducing a motley assemblage of eccentric boarders, notably the hypochondriacal Mr. Gobler and the ailing, vain Mrs....

13 Sep 45min

In which the tidiness and thrifty bustle of Mrs. Tibbs’s boarding-house on Great Coram-street provide a stage for an assembly of assorted boarders whose varied characters and ambitions intertwine amid...

12 Sep 39min

In which an ordinary street scene near Bow-street Police-office reveals the somber assembly of a crowd awaiting the arrival of Her Majesty’s carriage, a veiled sobriquet for the grim prisoners’ van co...

11 Sep 7min