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- The Pickwick Papers (1837) Dickens’ first and one of his finest, The Pickwick Papers is admittedly more a loose collection of stories than a traditional novel.
- Oliver Twist (1839) The inspiration for a hit musical, the basis for an Oscar-winning film, and the originator of the meme-worthy line “Please, sir, may I have some more?”
- Nicholas Nickleby (1839) We’re getting into even more complex Dickens with Nicholas Nickleby, a two-faced novel that’s part Pickwick comedy, part Oliver Twist tragedy.
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) The Old Curiosity Shop is the story of Nell Trent, a sweet young girl who lives with her grandfather and works at the titular shop.
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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.’
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Jan 1, 1986 · 4.5 2,875 ratings. See all formats and editions. The complete works of Charles Dickens. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 2429 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Octopus Books. Publication date. January 1, 1986. ISBN-10.
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- Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers – 1836
- Oliver Twist – 1837
- Nicholas Nickleby – 1838
- The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
- Barnaby Rudge – 1841
- Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843
- A Christmas Carol – Novella – 1843
- The Chimes – Novella – 1844
- The Cricket on The Hearth – Novella – 1845
- Dombey and Son – 1846
The Pickwick Papers, originally titled The Posthumous Writings of the Pickwick Club, was Charles Dickens’s first novel and is widely considered to be a humorous masterpiece. A group of English gentlemen, the Pickwick Club, embark on a series of misadventures throughout the country. They encounter several memorable people along the journey, includin...
Oliver Twist, one of Charles Dickens’s most well-known works, was first published in 1838 under the title The Parish Boy’s Progress. It appeared in installments between 1837 and 1839. Domestic abuse, child labor, kid recruitment into criminal organizations, and working-class living situations are all satirized by Dickens. The novel is a biting indi...
The 1838–1839 novel Nicholas Nicklebyfollows the protagonist as he tries to look for his mother and sister after their father dies. The protagonist is a young man who, after his father’s death, must go out on his own to find his place in the world. He runs across a variety of sketchy folks along the road, and he is caught up in several escapades. T...
The Old Curiosity Shop chronicles the daily lives of Nell Trent and her grandpa. Both worked at The Old Curiosity Shop in London and were serialized in the periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock, to which Dickens regularly contributed, between 1840 and 1841. Writing about Little Nell’s death was extremely painful for Dickens because he felt for her as ...
Barnaby Rudge: A Story of the Riots of Eighty (or just Barnaby Rudge) was also published in 1841 in Master Humphrey’s Clock, with The Old Curiosity Shop. It was supposed to be Dickens’ debut novel, but he ran into some trouble along the way. The book is set during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 and follows the narrative of a naive young man...
Martin Chuzzlewit was published in installments between 1843 and 1844 and was written by Dickens after his 1842 trip to America negatively impacted him. Dickens uses the Chuzzlewit family to illustrate several issues central to the story, including selfishness and greed. Even though Dickens informed a friend during the writing process that he belie...
A Christmas Carol, one of Charles Dickens’s most famous works, relates the story of a jaded old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and the visits he receives from the spirits of his deceased business partner Jacob Marley and Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come. It was released on December 19, 1843, and had sold out by Christmas Eve; it is a novell...
The Chimes, or A Goblin Tale of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year Inn, was the second in Charles Dickens’ series of ‘Christmas novels,’ five novellas with strong moral and social overtones. It was released a year after A Christmas Carol. The work was praised for its kind treatment of the impoverished and was written during the aut...
One of Dickens’ Christmas works is a novella titled The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home. It was different from the others in that it didn’t try to convey any sort of heavy social or moral message, instead opting for a story about idyllic household life reminiscent of a fairy tale. While some panned it for being too emotional and ignorin...
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation (also known as Dombey and Son) is a serial novel published between 1846 and 1848 that chronicles the fortunes of a shipping company owner who is disappointed by the absence of a son to inherit the business. The head of a shipping company at first rejects his daughter’s...
- The Pickwick Papers (1837) The Pickwick Papers is the novel that started it all for Dickens, inciting a cultural phenomenon and skyrocketing Dickens to stardom on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Oliver Twist (1838) The first child protagonist in an English novel, Oliver is an impoverished but pure-hearted orphan who escapes from a horrible workhouse and journeys to London.
- Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Nicholas Nickleby is a young man and the son of a gentleman, but his family’s fortunes take a nosedive when the father makes a poor business decision, dies, and leaves his family destitute.
- The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) The Old Curiosity Shop follows the story of Nell Trent, a sweet and saintly young teenager, and her beloved grandfather. The two live a secluded life in a London shop filled with curios and odd items.
Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Dec 9, 2016 · Read. 1 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. 2 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. 3 Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin. 4 The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley. 5 Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies by John Bowen and Robert I. Patten.
