Longman Classics – Jane Eyre

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.

One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist. Its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society.