My childhood favourite

Excellent classics. I love to read a Christmas Carol at this time of year.

This collection has convinced me that Dickens is easily one of the greatest authors who has ever lived. The only reason this is 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the deficiencies is this particular edition - it is rife with typos and was clearly just hastily thrown together with minimal editing (things like using the numeral "1" where there should be the letter "l"... random periods in the middle of words... and other similar mistakes).

As for the individual books:

Great Expectations - Probably the best of the bunch. Incredible and timeless story, and some of the best and most memorable characters in all of literary history (I can't think of a single character I've ever enjoyed more than Wemmick).

Hard Times - The story wasn't quite as engaging as the others imo, but the biting social commentary more than made up for it. It's incredible how timely this remains.

A Christmas Carol - I mean, what else needs to be said about this one?

A Tale of Two Cities - I now understand why this is essentially the greatest selling book of all time. Action, adventure, love, drama, crime, intrigue, betrayal, history... it's got everything. Not to mention the spectacular prose.

These four novels are great classics. Of coarse I recommend them to everyone young and old.

This is actually the form in which I have Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol (one version, I have at least two others in book form one is paperback and the other is illustrated and annotated) and A Tale of Two Cities.

Great Expectations is one of my favorites! You cannot go wrong with A Christmas Carol. Dickens is an amazing author who, in my opinion, has yet to meet his equal.