Classics & Literature
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge’s encounter with the past, present and future makes generosity, memory and social responsibility part of a tightly constructed ghost story
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Books by Charles Dickens
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Classics & Literature
A Tale of Two Cities
A historical novel of London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, structured around sacrifice, identity, violence and political upheaval
Classics & Literature
Bleak House
A sprawling Dickens novel in which a legal case connects bureaucracy, secrecy, social inequality, illness and a large cast of interlocking lives
Classics & Literature
Bleak house
Bleak House begins with fog and ends with one of Dickens’s most powerful examinations of a society drowning in its own institutions. At the center is the endless legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a lawsuit that has continued for generations until the people involved barely remember what they
Classics & Literature
David copperfield
David Copperfield traces the life of its narrator from childhood through adulthood, making it one of Dickens’s most personal and emotionally varied novels. David begins with a loving mother but an unstable home after the arrival of the cruel Mr
Classics & Literature
Dombey and Son
A family-business novel about pride, hierarchy, parental expectations and the damage done when people are valued mainly for the roles they fill
Classics & Literature
Great Expectations
Dickens turns an orphan’s sudden change in status into a story about ambition, shame, class, affection and the cost of becoming someone you think you ought to be
Classics & Literature
Nicholas Nickleby
A reform-minded Dickens narrative mixing family, education, exploitation and theatrical energy with a determined young protagonist
Classics & Literature
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens uses inheritance, money, waste and river commerce to explore class mobility, generosity, greed and the social meaning of wealth
Mystery & Detective
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens's unfinished final novel revolves around Edwin Drood's disappearance and the suspicions surrounding his family, relationships, and the mysterious John Jasper
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