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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]
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, commonly referred to as The Chimes, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books", five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during ...
The Signal-Man" is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The story is told from a fictional first-person perspective. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral ...
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.
Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Miss Havisham , a character in Charles Dickens ' novel Great Expectations , looking at her mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. [ 1 ]
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 Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Benjamin Disraeli — Falconet; Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child, Solace of the Road; Gardner Dozois — Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick) Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp) G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page; E. R. Eddison ...
In 1974 she published her first book The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, which won the Whitbread Book Award. Since then she has published: Shelley and His World (1980) Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987) The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) NCR Book Award, Hawthornden, James Tait Black Prize ...