Major Works of Charles Dickens (Great Expectations / Hard Times / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Bleak House / A Tale of Two Cities) (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover – November 23, 2011

Arrived in good condition.

Gorgeous! Just what I was looking for. Beautiful works of Dickens I can enjoy for years to come!

What a pleasure it is to read a good book or six! After reading through this collection, the remaining works of CD are must reads.Skip the introductions and notes. The former are - at times - salted with modern slants aimed towards the ridiculous and the latter - at times - tend to reveal events (in the literature) yet to be occur.Plot, setting, and character are richly developed in each story.For those who might think these books too "difficult" - horse hockey! It was pleasure to read "Great Expectations" without worrying about the color of some characters apparel or memorize the closing thoughts expressed in "ATOTC". In each story there arose a pinnacle of action - something unexpected - that caused this reader to halt in mild shock. Did that just happen? Oh my!Listed in order of this reader's favorites here are the books in this collection: A Tale of Two Cities/ / Bleak House / A Christmas Carol ( &c. ) / Oliver Twist / Hard Times / Great Expectations ; there is not a dud nor a near dud in the lot.

I am on a quest to get most of the Penguin clothbound classic series. This set is beautiful! The books themselves are gorgeous colors, and I really appreciate the sturdy cardboard case they come in. When you get several of these books and line them up on a shelf, they really are striking and gorgeous!

Really great books to add to your private library/book collection. Great way to introduce Charles Dicken's to younger readers.

I bought this for my fiancé for Valentine’s Day. He’s a big reader and told me he always wanted to own a few Charles Dickens books. I thought this collection was not only nice but nice to look at. When he got it he was thrilled and went to reading right away.Now here we are a year later and the beautiful patterns that are on the covers (which is what attracted me to this collection in the first place) is wearing off all of them. It started only a few days after he started reading them. It was really disappointing. Other than that it’s a great collection.

Reading through this entire collection, I wondered if I could finish them. I did. Reading the Classics, as sometimes I do, got me hooked on some I have heard of but never read. This is an easy read for someone to get interested in the Classics. Very nice that I did.

This is just a beautiful set, the print is not insanely small as some reviewers have stated. Each volume had a small price sticker ($24-$26 each) on the back, I removed them all right away but I think there will be still some remaining slight discoloration from the glue. I bought this as a gift to myself and I couldn’t be happier!!!