This edition includes: Stories About Children Every Child Can Read: Trotty Veck and Meg Tiny Tim The Runaway Couple Little Dorrit The Toy-Maker and His Blind Daughter Little Nell Little David Copperfield Jenny Wren Pip's Adventure Todgers' Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness Mr. Wardle's Servant Joe The Brave and Honest Boy, Oliver Twist Novels: Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Martin Chuzzlewit David Copperfield Great Expectations Christmas Novellas: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth Children's Books: Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Dickens's Children Christmas Stories A Christmas Tree The Poor Relation's Story The Child's Story The Schoolboy's Story Nobody's Story The Christmas Goblin Tom Tiddler's Ground A Child's History of England Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.