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This novel — inspired by Dickens’ own father’s time at Marshalsea (which was a real place!) — is a scathing critique of both the unjust, ineffectual nature of debtors’ prisons and the fragility of wealth and social circumstance. 17. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Buy on Amazon.
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Dec 21, 2015 · 3. A Christmas Carol (1843). Technically this isn’t a ‘novel’ but a novella, but it’s one of Dickens’s finest books and certainly one of his most influential. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks, and it was published just six days before Christmas Day in 1843.
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- The best Charles Dickens novel for crime fiction fans. Bleak House. Part tightly plotted murder mystery, part biting condemnation of the corruption at the heart of English society, Bleak House follows the inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
- The best Charles Dickens book for younger readers. Oliver Twist. When orphaned Oliver Twist runs away from the workhouse he was born in and arrives by foot in London, he’s faced with a world of crime, unusual friends and unexpected kindness.
- Charles Dickens' most romantic book. Great Expectations. Also opening with a poor orphaned boy, Great Expectations tells the tale of how young Pip falls in love with a beautiful upper-class girl named Estella.
- Charles Dickens' books that explore politics. Hard Times. Set in Coketown, an imaginary town inspired by Preston, Hard Times is a novel of social and moral themes which George Bernard Shaw called a ‘passionate revolt against the whole industrial order of the modern world.’
- Great Expectations (1861) Dickens achieved perfection with this gothic masterpiece about the ascent of a blacksmith’s apprentice from the Kent Marshes to the status of affluent London gentleman after he is bequeathed a fortune by a mysterious benefactor.
- David Copperfield (1850) This masterly bildungsroman charts the life and adventures of the eponymous hero, dispatched to live in an upturned boat on Yarmouth beach after his unworldly mother marries the cruel Edward Murdstone.
- Bleak House (1853) Dickens had begun his attack on the in-built absurdities of the bureaucratic behemoth that is the British legal system with Dodson and Fogg in Pickwick and revisited his contention that “the law is an ass” here to extraordinary effect.
- Oliver Twist (1839) Perhaps the best known of the author’s stories outside of A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist casts its orphan hero among the thieves of London: Bill Sikes, Fagin and the Artful Dodger.
Aug 2, 2012 · 1. Bleak House. Kelly Hager, Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, Simmons College. “Not to put too fine a point upon it,” as meek Mr. Snagsby is wont to say, Dickens’s best novel is Bleak House. It might not be everyone’s favorite (that honor might go to Dickens’s own “favourite child,” David ...
Aug 10, 2024 · Charles Dickens’ Greatest Books. Dickens is considered a literary genius and one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era, which makes whittling down his greatest books list difficult ...
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A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol is another well-loved novel by Charles Dickens. It features the hard-to-love protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge who starts the book as a miserable and miserly man of business. As the book progresses, he is haunted by three ghosts—the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
