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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]
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways.
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.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book on theoretical cosmology by the physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for readers who had no prior knowledge of physics.
Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories.
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (1857) is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. [48] Felix Holt by George Eliot (1866) is a social novel written about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the Reform Act 1832.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature at Bartleby.com. Archived from the original on 13 January 2006. Dickens, Charles (1859–1868). "Contributions to All The Year Round by Charles Dickens". Archived from the original on 4 September 2017; Forster, John (1872–1874). "The Life of Charles Dickens".
The Dickens Project. Criticism. Our Mutual Friend From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton. Other links. The Illustrations to Our Mutual Friend. The London of Our Mutual Friend. Our Mutual Friend: Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens's classic novel (BBC Radio 4 series)