Literature for life

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