Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens' finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. Written in the last decade of his life,...
Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens' weekly magazine Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might...
In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras — the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop...
“The more he thought it, the more perplexed he was; and the more he endeavored not to think, the more he thought”Charles Dickens
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