Charles Dickens Collection 3-Pack

The Definitive BBC Adaptations of Charles Dickens Classics - Available for the First Time Ever to U.S. Audiences!

The Old Curiosity Shop
Thirteen year-old Nell Trent lives with her ailing grandfather (Sebastian Shaw) in a run down London antiques shop, unaware that her grandfather has a ruinous gambling addiction that has left them nearly penniless.

To feed his addiction, Nell’s grandfather has been borrowing money under false pretenses from Daniel Quilp (Trevor Peacock), a deformed and vicious local businessman with dishonorable intentions towards Little Nell. When Quilp discovers where his money has gone, he wants it back – and Nell with it. Desperate and penniless, Little Nell and her grandfather flee, wandering the countryside in a frantic attempt to stay one step ahead of Quilp in a tragic and heartbreaking journey.

David Copperfield
David Yelland stars as David Copperfield in this superb BBC adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ best-loved and most autobiographical of novels.

Torn from his loving mother and devoted maid by his wicked step-father, David is abandoned into a cruel boarding school where beatings are the order of the day. When his mother is taken from him, he is sent to work in a bottle-cleaning factory and forced to live with the Micawbers. Fleeing to the protection of his eccentric Aunt Betsy, David at last starts to escape his past and fulfill his potential as a man.

Capturing many of the hardships Dickens himself endured – from abject poverty to cruelty and injustice at school – David Copperfield is a bittersweet but ultimately triumphant and uplifting masterpiece.

Nicholas Nickleby
Nigel Havers stars as the young Nicholas Nickleby in the BBC’s triumphant adaptations of one of Charles Dickens’ most celebrated novels.

Upon the death of his father Nicholas, along with his mother and sister, finds himself destitute and at the mercy of his stern Uncle Ralph. Ralph cruelly dispatches his niece to a dressmaking establishment, while Nicholas is sent to a vile and oppressive boarding school for unwanted and unloved children run by the sadistic Wackford Squeers.

Darkly satirical, angry, funny and hugely entertaining, Nicholas Nickleby is filled with the richest assortment of oddball characters that could only have originated from the quill of Charles Dickens.