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A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional probate case in Bleak House (1852–53) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery.The case is a central plot device in the novel and has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal proceedings.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853. The novel has many characters and several subplots , and is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson , and partly by an omniscient narrator .
The house was renovated and the Dickens House Museum was opened in 1925, under the direction of an independent trust, now a registered charity. [4] The house was listed in 1954. Perhaps the best-known exhibit is the portrait of Dickens known as Dickens's Dream by R. W. Buss , an original illustrator of The Pickwick Papers .
Charles Dickens first saw the mansion when he was 9 years old in 1821, when his father John Dickens told Charles that if he worked hard enough, one day he would own it or just such a house. [1] As a boy, Dickens would often walk from Chatham to Gads Hill Place as he wished to see it again and again as an image of his possible future. [2]
5.1 Quotations from the 1935 film. ... Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David ... Chelsea House Publishers. Hawes, Donald ...
John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations.He is Mr Jaggers's clerk and the protagonist Pip's friend. [1] Some scholars consider him to be the "most modern man in the book".