Charles Dickens was an English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Extraordinarily popular during his lifetime, he wrote novels, novellas, short stories, and plays, including masterpieces such as The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837), Oliver Twist (1837-1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1849-1850), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1860-1861).
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The Original Victorian Christmas Pudding Recipe
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Illustrations From The First Edition Of A Christmas Carol (1843)
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A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is an old miser who values money over anything else, including his relationship with his deceased partner Jacob Marley, his clerk, and his nephew. On the night of Christmas Eve, he is visited by the Ghost of Jacob Marley, who informs him that he will be visited by three spirits and warns him against the consequences of a life of greed. Led by the Spirits, Scrooge confronts his past, present, and future, acknowledging the error of his ways and awakening a changed man.
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A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
Publish Date: 1859
Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens’s gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their…
David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens
Recommended by: Elizabeth Gilbert & Sebastian Faulks
Publish Date: 1850
Deemed by Dickens as his ‘favourite child’, David Copperfield is the most autobiographical of Dickens’ novels. In it, the protagonist recounts his life from his childhood to the discovery of his writing talent and eventual success as a novelist. Populated…
Bleak House
By Charles Dickens
Recommended by: Susan Hill
Publish Date: 1853
At the High Court of Chancery, the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce continues, having “become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means”. A group of disparate people involved in the dispute, from the upper echelons of…
