Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the...
The story of Oliver Twist - stranded, and set upon by fiendish and difficulty from his to begin with breath - stunned perusers when it was distributed. After running absent from the workhouse and self important beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself...
The story, published in 1854, concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "demonstrable truth fanatic," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a grim and arid atmosphere of practicality. Without a moral compass to direct them, children plunge into life of...
In this grasping story of wrongdoing and blame, exact retribution and remunerate, the compelling characters incorporate Magwitch, the dreadful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose excellence is exceeded expectations as it were by her haughtiness; and...
