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Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens
Brimming with the threat of 'human gore', Dickens's first historical novel is set against the background of the Gordon 'No Popery' Riots of 1780.
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Bleak House (1852-3) is a devastating satire on the evils of the English legal system and the state of Victorian society.
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Own a cornerstone of British culture in one of the finest editions ever produced. The classic account of the rootless orphan who overcomes the disadvantages of his birth to become a famous novelist.
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Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
The shipping merchant Paul Dombey rejoices over the birth of an heir for the family business. But the son proves too fragile a vessel to fulfil the dreams of a cold and calculating father.
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero finds that 'great expectations' are not enough when it comes to the real business of living.
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
William Dorrit has resided in the debtors’ prison for so long that it is the only home his daughter Amy, ‘Little Dorrit’, has known. When an unexpected fortune comes the family’s way, it is only Amy who escapes with her goodness intact. But the bars of the Marshalsea are not so easy to leave behind.
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens
The story of an inheritance, this novel relates the contrasting destinies of two descendants of the brothers Chuzzlewit, both born and bred to the same heritage of selfishness, showing how one, Martin, by good fortune escapes and how the other, Jonas, does not.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens
Dickens's last novel is the natural culmination of his life's work. It is populated by memorable characters such as the fatuous Mr Sapsea and the bullying 'philanthropist' Mr Honeythunder, and it exhibits Dickens's dazzling talent for atmosphere and social observation.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, Dickens created some of his most memorable characters: the muddle-headed Mrs Nickleby, the theatrical Crummles, their protege Miss Petowker, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens
High emotion and riotous comedy tumble from the pages of one of Dickens’s most picaresque novels, as Little Nell Trent and her grandfather are pursued across the countryside by the demonic money-lending dwarf, Quilp. Thousands of Victorian readers, clamouring for each new episode, wept at the fate of Little Nell.
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
When the starving boys of the workhouse draw lots to decide who shall ask for extra gruel, it is Oliver who pulls the short straw. Banished by Mr Bumble, apprenticed to an undertaker, and adopted into Fagin's den of thieves, Oliver somehow survives, his essential innocence and goodness intact.
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
The discovery of a body in the Thames brings together as disparate, vivid and memorable a collection of characters as Dickens ever created – Boffin, Gaffer Hexam, Mortimer Lightwood, Silas Wegg, Rogue Riderhood, Mr Podsnap, the Veneerings – their fates tied to the fast-flowing, fetid river.
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Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) launched Dickens's career in riotous style. The format of monthly serial publication, together with the picaresque nature of the comic subject matter, created a huge popular following for the young novelist.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Dickens's story of the French aristocrat Charles Darnay and dissolute barrister Sydney Carton, drawn together by the love of the same woman, reaches its memorable climax in the bloody cauldron of Paris during the Terror.
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