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Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The issue of a new edition of Martin Chuzzlewit tempts us to devote a few words to the consideration of what we venture to think the most brilliant and entertaining of all the works of Mr. Dickens. We do not pretend to have any observations to offer on so familiar a work that can have much novelty for the established admirers of Mr. Dickens. There are especially three parts of Martin Chuzzlewit that have thus been incorporated into the body of English thought. There is the history and character of Mr. Pecksniff; there is the figure, the habits, and the friend of Mrs. Gamp; and there is the description of all that Martin did and saw in America. Whenever an oily and plausible man is to be pointed out, he is at once called a Pecksniff. Whenever an unknown authority is quoted against us, we exclaim ” Mrs. Harris;” and the press of New York, and the speeches of American statesmen, forbid us ever to forget the ” Pogram Defiance” and the proceedings of the Water-toast Association. These are the great contributions of Martin Chuzzlewit to the resources of the English language, and to the completeness of English literature.
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Sketches By Boz
Sketches By Boz – Charles Dickens
“Sketches By Boz” is a collection of 56 sketches concerning London scenes and inhabitants. Most of the stories, that are divided into four sections, are portraits, but there are also some purely fictional ones.
Sketches By Boz.
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The majority of the 56 sketches that appeared together in 1839 were originally published individually in popular newspapers and periodicals, including The Morning Chronicle, The Evening Chronicle, The Monthly Magazine, The Carlton Chronicle and Bell’s Life in London, between 1833 and 1836:
“Mr. Minns and his Cousin” (SB 46), originally, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” in The Monthly Magazine, 1 December 1833.
“Mrs. Joseph Porter, Over the Way” (SB 53), originally in The Monthly Magazine, January 1834.
“Horatio Sparkins” (SB 49), originally in The Monthly Magazine, February 1834.
“The Bloomsbury Christening” (SB 55), originally in The Monthly Magazine, April 1834.
“The Boarding-House” (SB 45), originally in The Monthly Magazine, May & August 1834.
“Sentiment” (SB 47), originally in Bell’s Weekly Magazine, 7 June 1834.
“The Steam Excursion” (SB 51), originally in The Monthly Magazine, October 1834.
“A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle” (SB 54), originally “Chapter the First” and “Chapter the Second” in two numbers of The Monthly Magazine, January and February 1835.
“The Four Sisters” (SB 3), Our Parish 3, originally, “Sketches of London No. 14” in The Evening Chronicle, 18 June 1835.
“The Election for Beadle” (SB 4), Our Parish 4, originally, “Sketches of London No. 16” in The Evening Chronicle, 14 July 1835.
“The Broker’s Man” (SB 5), Our Parish 5, originally, “Sketches of London No. 18” in The Evening Chronicle, 28 July 1835.
“The Ladies’ Societies” (SB 6), Our Parish 6, originally, “Sketches of London No. 20” in The Evening Chronicle, 28 July 1835.
“Miss Evans and the Eagle” (SB 36), (Scenes and Characters No. 2) originally in Bell’s Life in London, 4 October 1835.
“The Dancing Academy” (SB 41), originally, “Scenes and Characters, No. 3” in Bell’s Life in London, 11 October 1835.
“Making a Night of It” (SB 43), originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 4” in Bell’s Life in London, 18 October 1835.
“The Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce” (SB 39), originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 5. Love and Oysters,” in Bell’s Life in London, 25 October 1835.
“Some Account of an Omnibus Cad” originally, “Scenes and Characters No. 6,” later retitled and expanded into “The Last Cab-driver and the First Omnibus Cab”; in Bell’s Life in London, 1 November 1835.
“The Mistaken Milliner. A Tale of Ambition” (SB 40) originally “Scenes and Characters No. 7. The Vocal Dressmaker,” in Bell’s Life in London, 22 November 1835.
“The New Year” (SB 35), originally in Bell’s Life in London, 3 January 1836.
“The Great Winglebury Duel” (SB 52), originally in the First Series of Sketches by Boz, 8 February 1836.
“The Black Veil” (SB 50) originally in the First Series of Sketches by Boz, 8 February 1836.
“Our Next-Door Neighbour” (Our Parish 7), originally, “Our Next-Door Neighbours” in The Morning Chronicle, 18 March 1836.
“The Tuggses at Ramsgate” (Tales 4), originally in The Library of Fiction No. 1, 31 March 1836 (accompanied by two Robert Seymour woodcuts).
“The Hospital Patient” (SB 38), Characters 6, originally in The Carlton Chronicle, 6 August 1836.
“The Drunkard’s Death” (SB 56), originally in the Second Series of Sketches by Boz, 17 December 1836.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
A whole generation, on either side of the Atlantic, used to fall sobbing at the name of Little Nell, which will hardly bring tears to the eyes of any one now, though it is still apparent that the child was imagined with real feelings, and her sad little melodrama was staged with sympathetic skill. When all is said against the lapses of taste and truth, the notion of the young girl wandering up and down the country with her demented grandfather, and meeting good and evil fortune with the same devotion, till death overtakes her, is something that must always touch the heart. It is preposterously overdone, yes, and the author himself falls into pages of hysterical rhythm, which once moved people, when he ought to have been writing plain, straight prose; yet there is in all a sense of the divinity in common and humble lives, which is the most precious quality of literature, as it is almost the rarest, and it is this which moves and consoles. It is this quality in Dickens which Tolstoy prizes and accepts as proof of his great art, and which the true critic must always set above any effect of literary mastery. “The Old Curiosity Shop” makes strong appeal to a youthful imagination, and contains little that is beyond its scope. Dickens’s sentiment, however it may distress the mature mind of our later day, is not unwholesome, and, at all events in this story, addresses itself naturally enough to feelings unsubdued by criticism. His quality of picturesqueness is here seen at its best, with little or nothing of that melodrama which makes the alloy of “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Oliver Twist” —to speak only of the early books.
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Barnaby Rudge
Barnaby Rudge – Charles Dickens
A collection of Dickens’ books would not be complete without this historical work for children which sometimes reads more like a fairytale. In his own very special writing the author runs the child through centuries and centuries of English history. A book that has been in the curricula of English schools until the end of World War II.
Barnaby Rudge.
ISBN: 9783849673710.
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Plot summary of Barnaby Rudge (from Wikipedia):
Both Edward’s father, John Chester, and Emma’s uncle, the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale – these two are sworn enemies – oppose their union after Sir John untruthfully convinces Geoffrey that Edward’s intentions are dishonourable. Sir John intends to marry Edward to a woman with a rich inheritance, to support John’s expensive lifestyle and to pay off his debtors. Edward quarrels with his father and leaves home for the West Indies.
Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton, wanders in and out of the story with his pet raven, Grip. Barnaby’s mother begins to receive visits from the ill-kempt stranger, whom she feels compelled to protect. She later gives up the annuity she had been receiving from Geoffrey Haredale and, without explanation, takes Barnaby and leaves the city hoping to escape the unwanted visitor.
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A Child’s History Of England
A Child’s History Of England – Charles Dickens
A collection of Dickens’ books would not be complete without this historical work for children which sometimes reads more like a fairytale. In his own very special writing the author runs the child through centuries and centuries of English history. A book that has been in the curricula of English schools until the end of World War II.
A Child’s History Of England.
ISBN: 9783849674144.
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Excerpt from the first chapter of A Child’s History of England (from Wikipedia):
If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.
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Bleak House
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Bleak House is not certainly Dickens’s best book; but perhaps it is his best novel. Such a distinction is not a mere verbal trick; it has to be remembered rather constantly in connection with his work. This particular story represents the highest point of his intellectual maturity. Maturity does not necessarily mean perfection. It is idle to say that a mature potato is perfect; some people like new potatoes. A mature potato is not perfect, but it is a mature potato; the mind of an intelligent epicure may find it less adapted to his particular purpose; but the mind of an intelligent potato would at once admit it as being, beyond all doubt, a genuine, fully developed specimen of his own particular species. The same is in some degree true even of literature. We can say more or less when a human being has come to his full mental growth, even if we go so far as to wish that he had never come to it. Children are very much nicer than grown-up people; but there is such a thing as growing up. When Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
“Nicholas Nickleby” combined the comic and the sensational elements for the first time, and is still the type of Dickens’s longer books, in which the strain of violent pathos or sinister mystery is incessantly relieved by farce, either of incident or description. In this novel, too, the easy-going, old-fashioned air of “Pickwick” is abandoned in favour of a humanitarian attitude more in keeping with the access of Puritanism which the new reign had brought with it, and from this time forth a certain squeemishness in dealing with moral problems and a certain “gush” of unreal sentiment obscured the finer qualities of the novelist’s genius.

Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby.
ISBN: 9783849675042.
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Plot summary of Nicholas Nickleby (from Wikipedia):
Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas’s uncle, Ralph Nickleby. Ralph, a cold and ruthless businessman, has no desire to help his destitute relations and hates Nicholas, who reminds him of his dead brother, on sight. He gets Nicholas a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire. Nicholas is initially wary of Squeers (a very unpleasant man with one eye) because he is gruff and violent towards his young charges, but he tries to quell his suspicions. As Nicholas boards the stagecoach for Greta Bridge, he is handed a letter by Ralph’s clerk, Newman Noggs. A once-wealthy businessman, Noggs lost his fortune, became a drunk, and had no other recourse but to seek employment with Ralph, whom he loathes. The letter expresses concern for him as an innocent young man, and offers assistance if Nicholas ever requires it. Once he arrives in Yorkshire, Nicholas comes to realise that Squeers is running a scam: he takes in unwanted children (most of whom are illegitimate, crippled or deformed) for a high fee, and starves and mistreats them while using the money sent by their parents, who only want to get them out of their way, to pad his own pockets. Squeers and his monstrous wife whip and beat the children regularly, while spoiling their own son. Lessons are no better; they show how poorly educated Squeers himself is and he uses the lessons as excuses to send the boys off on chores. While he is there, Nicholas befriends a simple boy named Smike, who is older than the other “students” and now acts as an unpaid servant. Nicholas attracts the attention of Fanny Squeers, his employer’s plain and shrewish daughter, who deludes herself into thinking that Nicholas is in love with her. She attempts to disclose her affections during a game of cards, but Nicholas doesn’t catch her meaning. Instead he ends up flirting with her friend Tilda Price, to the consternation of both Fanny and Tilda’s friendly but crude-mannered fiancé John Browdie. After being accosted by Fanny again, Nicholas bluntly tells her he does not return her affections and wishes to be free of the horrible atmosphere of Dotheboys Hall, earning her enmity.
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The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens’ last novel and remained – unfortunately – unfinished. There was a lot of discussion about what Dickens could have had in his mind as solution for the plot. Was Mr. Jasper really a murderer? What was the real mystery of Edwin Drood’s death? We will never know, but this novel will surely make your mind reel after you read it to the … end?

The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood.
ISBN: 9783849675462.
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Plot summary of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (from Wikipedia):
The novel begins as John Jasper leaves a London opium den.[4] The next evening, Edwin Drood visits Jasper, who is the choirmaster at Cloisterham Cathedral. Edwin confides that he has misgivings about his betrothal to Rosa Bud. The next day, Edwin visits Rosa at the Nuns’ House, the boarding school where she lives. They quarrel good-naturedly, which they apparently do frequently during his visits. Meanwhile, Jasper, having an interest in the cathedral crypt, seeks the company of Durdles, a man who knows more about the crypt than anyone else.
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A Tale Of Two Cities
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities differs essentially from all of Dickens’ other novels in style and manner of treatment. Forster, in his ‘Life of Dickens,’ writes that “there is no instance in his novels excepting this, of a deliberate and planned departure from the method of treatment which had been pre-eminently the source of his popularity as a novelist.” To rely less upon character than upon incident, and to resolve that his actors should be expressed by the story more than they should express themselves by dialogue, was for him a hazardous, and can hardly be called an entirely successful, experiment. With singular dramatic vivacity, much constructive art, and with descriptive passages of a high order everywhere, there was probably never a book by a great humorist, and an artist so prolific in conception, with so little humor and so few remarkable figures. Its merit lies elsewhere. The two cities are London and Paris. The time is just before and during the French Revolution. A peculiar chain of events knits and interweaves the lives of a “few simple, private people” with the outbreak of a terrible public event. Dr. Manette has been a prisoner in the Bastille for eighteen years, languishing there, as did so many others, on some vague unfounded charge. His release when the story opens, his restoration to his daughter Lucie, the trial and acquittal of one Charles Darnay, nephew of a French marquis, on a charge of treason, the marriage of Lucie Manette to Darnay,— these incidents form the introduction to the drama of blood which is to follow.
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Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens
The story opens with the death of Mrs. Dombey, who has left her husband the proud possessor of a baby son and heir. He neglects his daughter Florence and loves Paul, in whom all his ambitions and worldly hopes are centred; but the boy dies. Mr. Dombey marries a beautiful woman, who is as cold and proud as he, and who has sold herself to him to escape from a designing mother. She grows fond of Florence, and this friendship is so displeasing to Mr. Dombey that he tries to humble her by remonstrating through Mr. Carker, his business manager and friend. This crafty villain, realizing his power, goads her beyond endurance, and she demands a separation from Mr. Dombey, but is refused. After an angry interview, she determines upon a bold stroke and disgraces her husband by pretending to elope with Carker to France, where she meets him once, shames and defies him and escapes. Mr. Dombey, after spurning Florence, whom he considers the cause of his trouble, follows Carker in hot haste. They encounter each other without warning at a railway station, and as Carker is crossing the tracks he falls and is instantly killed by an express train. Florence seeks refuge with an old sea-captain whom her little brother, Paul, has been fond of, marries Walter Gay, the friend of her childhood, and they go to sea. After the failure of Dombey and Son, when Mr. Dombey’s pride is humbled and he is left desolate, Florence returns and takes care of him.
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