Phillip Pirrip the Second, or Pip, is a young boy in the Kent Marshes. Simple plot, simple characters that are naturally not so simple as it goes on. (Quick note: No, I didn't read A Tale of Two Cities in this edition, I only borrowed it from the library for the cover).In essence a Dickensian tal...
I love Dickens! Don't worry...it'll be fine! Very easy reading and a good example of Dickens work.
Fucking hard English OMG !!! I only read Great Expectations. Can be difficult to read but I loved the story.
Who are your gods? Whom do you worship in actions, and whom in words? Charles Dickens waggles his finger in my face, the finger of a crone, of a maiden, of a businessman. The polished finger of a marquis, the calloused finger of a knitter. He makes his point with the appropriate number of adj...
And so thirty-one Regency romances, fifteen Kindle freebies, innumerable cups of tea and many more books later, I have finally finished this Dickens masterpiece. It took me exactly thirteen months, and I had time to read an alarming total of eighty-three books in between the start and finish of B...
I have a bookcase in my study, displaying some artefacts of my immediate ancestors and from my own childhood.Arrayed neatly on the shelves are a few of my grandfather’s and father’s engineering texts (mechanical and electrical respectively) grandfather’s leather-cased measuring tape, dad’s slide ...
Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens's best known stories. Characters such as the evil Fagin, with his band of thieves and villains, the Artful Dodger with "all the airs and manners of a man," the house-breaker Sikes and his dog, the conscience-stricken but flawed Nancy, the frail but determine...
”I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose had shrun...
"Bah! Humbug!" Who does not recognise this expostulation, and the old curmudgeon who spat it out. The very name "Scrooge" has entered the vernacular to indicate a mean-spirited skinflint. "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, c...
Little Dorrit is a novel of family loyalty. We follow the paths of three families, and rub shoulders with a few others as well. Our three primary households are the Dorrits, the Clennams, and the Meagles.Little Amy Dorrit is the child of the Marshalsea debtors prison. She was born there and lived...
When Ernie produced this book at the last Gentlemen's Book Club, he took me to one side before the others could muscle in on this little gem. 'Here,' he said, 'I know you'd be interested in this.' He was right. After all, when we first formed the club, I'd expressed a particular interest in filli...
The Old Curiosity Shop was the most popular of Dickens's novels during his lifetime. Yet now there is perhaps no other novel by him which splits opinion so much. How can that be?The simple answer is that tastes change. Just as with modern-day fantasy stories the reader has to suspend their disbel...
These are NOT the Christmas Books of Ebenezer Scrooge and other volumes which put the winter holiday on the map. These are the annual holiday-themed stories Dickens published in his Household Words journal. These stories made Mr. Dickens the prophet of home life. He brought imagination into the w...
This was a free download from Audible, and who can pass up a free Dickens?One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this one features a series of misunderstanding and coincidences in typical Dickens fashion.A Scrooge-like toymaker named Tackleton is engaged to marry a much younger woman, who clearly doe...
Have you read The Pickwick Papers? It does seem to be the one work by Charles Dickens which is sadly neglected by many readers. "The Pickwick Papers" was originally published in 19 monthly magazine instalments, from March 1836 to October 1837, this last being a double issue. They were then reissu...
«De certo modo o romance mais enigmático e revelador de Charles Dickens, Tempos Difíceis é produto da sua imaginação, não da sua consciência social. O tema da família é afectado pela obsessão e estranheza que o autor coloca nele — as mulheres peculiarmente virginais, a solteirona rabugenta, a mãe...
At The Center of Martin Chuzzlewit is Martin himself—very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of his close and distant relations will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of Iris great fortune. Reluctantly heading for America in search ...
'David Copperfield', written at a prosperous and content time in Dickens life, became the fictional account of his life story - a romantic autobiography charting the young man's evolution from his troubled formative years to an affluent and happy adulthood.
In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and gu...
Stories of comedy and character from one of Britain's greatest novelistsThis witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatura...
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Author: Various Release Date: February 26, 2009 [eBook #28198] Language: English Cha...
Fagin and company. While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in the old den—the same form which Oliver had been removed by the girl—brooding over a dull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon his knee, with which he had apparently been endeavouring to rouse it i...
So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until long afterwards when France and she were far apart, did she know that eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by t...