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- The best Charles Dickens novel for crime fiction fans. Bleak House. Part tightly plotted murder mystery, part biting condemnation of the corruption at the heart of English society, Bleak House follows the inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
- The best Charles Dickens book for younger readers. Oliver Twist. When orphaned Oliver Twist runs away from the workhouse he was born in and arrives by foot in London, he’s faced with a world of crime, unusual friends and unexpected kindness.
- Charles Dickens' most romantic book. Great Expectations. Also opening with a poor orphaned boy, Great Expectations tells the tale of how young Pip falls in love with a beautiful upper-class girl named Estella.
- Charles Dickens' books that explore politics. Hard Times. Set in Coketown, an imaginary town inspired by Preston, Hard Times is a novel of social and moral themes which George Bernard Shaw called a ‘passionate revolt against the whole industrial order of the modern world.’
1 day ago · Charles Dickens was born on Feb.7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England to a working-class family. He spent the early years of his childhood staying in, because of his poor health, and reading. Before turning 16 Dickens had to drop out of school twice, first to work at a boot-blacking factory alongside the River Thames then as an errand boy at a law ...
3 days ago · His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.
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