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The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
From one of Dickens lesser known books, The Cricket on the Hearth. Plummer, Caleb is Mr Tackleton's underpaid toy maker in The Cricket on the Hearth. Plummer, Edward the son of Caleb Plummer in The Cricket on the Hearth. Pocket, Belinda always has her nose in a book of titles. Her father was a Knight "who had invented for himself a conviction ...
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.
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]
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Charles Dickens found himself in a financial bind in the fall of 1843, a bind for which he devised "a little scheme" to extricate himself. Over the course of six weeks, he wrote "A Christmas Carol ...
G. K. Chesterton published an important defence of Dickens in his book Charles Dickens in 1906, where he describes him as this "most English of our great writers". [172] Dickens's literary reputation grew in the 1940s and 1950s because of essays by George Orwell and Edmund Wilson (both published in 1940), and Humphrey House's The Dickens World ...
The first talkie version was a 1934 British film starring Hay Petrie as Quilp. The novel was serialised for television by the BBC in 1962, starring Patrick Troughton as Quilp. No recordings of this production are known to exist. [21] A British musical version of The Old Curiosity Shop (titled Mr. Quilp in the United States) was released in 1975.