Only our Snapshot Guide™ leads you through the complete story and all its twists and turns. You will never forget the key events and characters.

Our unique Snapshot Guide™ provides a fascinating insight into what it was like to be involved, whether rich or poor, in a factory town during the Industrial Revolution.

Huge in scope, it centres around a celebrated court casethat goes on for so long that people fall by the wayside, either dead or broken. Esther is the heroine and the ultimately tragic Lady Dedlock a sad victim who did not know she had a living child. Murder and robbery loom large, right up to the final heart-breaking scenes when Sergeant Bucket the detective takes Esther on a harrowing chase through the night to find the mother she never knew.  It was a scathing indictment on the British legal system but has some wonderfully colourful characters.

This brilliant Snapshot Guide™ analyses this huge canvas of a complex story and turns it into a totally understandable classic of multi-layered writing. A riveting read.

Young Pip, born on the marshes and living in the local forge with his nasty sister and her kind husband, meets a convict who forces him to provide food before being recaptured. Years later Pip is offered ‘Great Expectations’ to be brought up as a gentleman, but he mistakenly thinks a local lady with a beautiful ward is responsible. Unfortunately it all goes horribly wrong and the final outcome reaches a very powerful and moving conclusion. A study in arrogance, love and the coming of age.

An easily-absorbed Snapshot Guide™ that brings a powerful plot, a strong life-lesson and memorable characters to vibrant life and makes the reader ache to read the original.

The story of how a fatherless boy overcomes all odds to make a new life for himself and his young sister. How he fights his tyrannical uncle and how he protects a poor dim-witted boy called Smike from the enemies who finally help hasten his death.  He also saves his beautiful sister from the advances of the odious womaniser and gambler Sir Mulberry Hawk. The story ranges from the brutal Dotheboys School in Yorkshire to an acting troupe in Portsmouth and to London before his uncle receives his just desserts.

The perfect study guide, this Snapshot Guide™ clearly plots the evil schemes of the fraudster Ralph Nickleby and his evil henchman Sir Mulberry Hawk as he tries to have his nephew tamed and his niece ruined.

Scrooge is forced to see the error of his miserly ways by the visits of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future; and how he saves the life of poor old Tiny Tim and makes Tim’s father Bob Cratchet a richer and happier man. ‘The Haunted Man’ concerns a man who gives up his haunted memories of his sad and heart-breaking past, only to realise that he afflicts all around him with the same disease. ‘The Chimes’ takes poor Toby Veck on a supposed journey through life where there is no belief in a future.

This classic Snapshot Guide™ gives you not just A Christmas Carol but another two of Dickens’ favourite Christmas stories from the pen of the master.

Oliver Twist is born in the poor house just before his mother dies, leaving him to be raised in the workhouse until ten. He finally runs away to London, only to fall in with the evil Fagin and his young gang of pickpockets. The mystery of Oliver’s past is finally realised when his half-brother tries to have him killed by Fagin. Brutal Bill Sikes kills poor Nancy when he finds out she has betrayed them to Oliver’s benefactor. Ina  gripping finale, Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself while escaping and Fagin is taken and executed.

This highly-enjoyable Snapshot Guide™ unravels the complex plots and sub-plots to provide a masterful and highly readable work of reference and revision.