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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of the 'Eighty
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of the 'Eighty
The Battle of Life
Bleak House
A Child's History of England
The Chimes
A Christmas Carol
eBook Summary: The best-known and best-loved of Dickens' tales, A Christmas Carol is the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who hated Christmas. That is, until one Christmas Eve, when three ghosts take him on journeys through the past, present and future. As Scrooge enters the lives of the lovable Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the Fezziwigs, he comes to know the meaning of kindness, charity, and goodwill.
Contributions to: All The Year Round
Contributions to: All The Year Round
The Cricket on the Hearth
David Copperfield
Doctor Marigold
Dombey and Son
George Silverman's Explanation
George Silverman's Explanation
Going into Society
Great Expectations
This novel was one of its Charles Dickens' greatest critical and popular successes. The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip). Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day. Her other ward is the orphaned Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty. Pip, at first cautious, later falls in love with Estella, to his misfortune. When an anonymous benefactor makes it possible for Pip to go to London for an education, he credits Miss Havisham. He begins to look down on his humble roots, but nonetheless Estella spurns him again and marries instead the ill-tempered Bentley Drummle. Pip's benefactor turns out to have been Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided, who dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. Joe rescues Pip from despair and nurses him back to health.
Hard Times
Haunted Man and Ghost's Bargain
Haunted Man and Ghost's Bargain
Holiday Romance
The Holly-Tree
A House to Let
Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
The Lamplighter: A Farce in One Act
The Lamplighter: A Farce in One Act
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Little Dorrit
Martin Chuzzlewit
Master Humphrey's Clock
A Message From the Sea
Miscellaneous Papers
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
Mudfog and Other Sketches
Mugby Junction
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Nicholas Nickleby
No Thoroughfare
The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
Our Mutual Friend
Perils of Certain English Prisoners
Perils of Certain English Prisoners
The Pickwick Papers
Pictures From Italy
Reprinted Pieces
The Seven Poor Travellers
The Signal Man
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
Sketches of Young Couples
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
Some Christmas Stories
Somebody's Luggage
Speeches: Literary and Social
Sunday Under Three Heads
A Tale of Two Cities
Summary: Dickens's dramatic narrative of the French Revolution provides a highly-charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice. A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens's second historical novel, and one of his greatest.
Three Ghost Stories
To Be Read At Dusk
Tom Tiddler's Ground
The Trial for Murder
The Uncommercial Traveller
Wreck of the Golden Mary
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