The Dickens Digest Author:Charles Dickens This edition contains condensed versions of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, and the Pickwick Papers. The editor notes, "What the Dickens Digest offers is not a skeleton of the novels chosen, but the essential narrative in the words of its creator, freed of the porlixity that annoys modern readers. My purpose has been to repr... more »oduce faithfully scenes, dialogues, descriptions that acquaint the reader with the essential Dickens, omitting nothing that contributes to the rapid progress of the stories and the characters."« less