Charles Dickens

Four literary classics; `Great Expectations`, `Hard Times`, `A
Christmas Carol`, and `A Tale of Two Cities`. The four books collected
here reveal much of Dicken`s development as a novelist. His early works
lampooned the abuses of society, but with a confidence that they could
be overcome with goodwill and common sense. In his later novels he had
become a penetrating social critic, analyzing the materialism and greed
of his age in long, complicated panoramas that no longer offered
solution that depended on a triumph of human nature.