Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Genre: History and geography -
Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:The Cricket on the Hearth is the third in Charles Dickens' series of Christmas classics that started with his beloved A Christmas Carol. In this tale the Peerybingle and Plummer families find...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers consists of a...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a condition-of-England novel, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures that some people were...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms his...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:A richly-woven and moving tale set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution. Aristocrats run over children in carriages, old women knit hit lists and peasants drink wine...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Classic fiction -
Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Three of Dickens's most compelling orphan protagonists'Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson'in three of his greatest novels. Perhaps no writer in the English language is more closely associated...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of...
Genre: Classic fiction, Short stories -
Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:Everybody knows A Christmas Carol, but the prolific Charles Dickens wrote several other holiday tales. Here, Dreamscape Media has compiled a collection of Dickens' classic Christmas stories. Disc...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall,...
Genre: Classic fiction, Bildungsromans