This book is part of a book series called New Windmills Collection Ks3 .

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Pearson Education Limited .

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

This book has the following chapters:

Selections from:

Adults and children

Great Expectations - Practical parenting and the Pocket family

David Copperfield - David sees his mother's happiness slip away

Great Expectations - Pip's Christmas dinner

Lessons and learning

David Copperfield - Mr Murdstone teaches David a lesson

Nicholas Nickleby - Mr Wackford Sqeers: Headmaster of Dothebys Hall

Earning an honest living

Oliver Twist - Fagin's Academy of Pocket-picking Arts and Sciences

Martin Chuzzlewit - Being jolly under circumstances: Mark Tapley

Romantic pursuits

Great Expectations - Broken-hearted vengeance: Miss Havisham

The Pickwick Papers - Sam Weller writes a Valentine

Oliver Twist - Mr Bumble shows his wife who's boss

Table manners

David Copperfield - Davie and the very obliging waiter

Great Expectations - The great bread-eating contest: Joe and Pip

Our Mutal Friend - Dinner with the Veneerings

Home is where the English heart is

Little Dorrit - Foreigners: The view from Bleeding Heart Yard

Oliver Twist - The poorhouse

A Christmas Carol - Christmas at the Cratchits'

Desperate situations

The Pickwick Papers - Mr Pickwick and the wrong bedroom

A Tale of Two Cities - Changing places in the shadow of the guillotine

The Black Veil - complete short story - Dickens the observer and commentator: non-fiction