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1 day ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 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]
2 days ago · Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, (London: J. M. Dent, 1906), 218–21. Text The men were terrible, in the bloody-minded anger with which they looked from windows, caught up what arms they had, and came pouring down into the streets; but, the women were a sight to chill the boldest.
1 day ago · Toward the end of the Victorian era, the image of the opium addict and the Chinese opium den in the East End of London or in the Orient itself becomes a prominent trope in fiction by Dickens, Wilde, and Kipling, and can be seen to lead to the proliferation of Oriental villains in popular fiction of the early 20th century by such writers as M. P. Shiel, Guy Boothby, and Sax Rohmer, whose Dr. Fu Manchu becomes the archetypal version of such figures.
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16 hours ago · This essay about Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” explores the novella’s profound impact on literature and society. It highlights how Dickens blends supernatural elements with social commentary centering on Ebenezer Scrooge a miser transformed into a benevolent figure through the intervention of various ghosts on Christmas Eve.
3 days ago · “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
4 days ago · The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol 2, 1868-70 By Graham Storey (ed) Charles Dickens By Jane Smiley LR November 1990 Issue John Bayley Boz’s Little Bit The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens By Claire Tomalin LR April 1982 Issue Humphrey Carpenter The Elusive Charles Dickens Dickens: Interviews and Recollections By ...
1 day ago · IN this video we read through chapter 58 of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. We explore useful intermediate level and advanced level English vocabulary ...
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