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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
American Notes
American Notes – Charles Dickens Since the voyage of Columbus in search of the New World, and of Raleigh in quest of El Dorado, no visit to America has excited so much interest and conjecture as that of the author of „Oliver Twist.“ . . . In the mean time the book, however disconcerting to […]
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist was published in 1838. This story shows in vivid colors the miseries ofthe pauper’s home where the inmates are robbed and starved, while the dead are hurried into unhonored graves; the haunts of villains and thieves, where the wretchedpoor are purposely made criminals by those who have sinned […]
David Copperfield
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens „Of all my books,“ says Charles Dickens in his preface to this immortal novel, „I like this the best. . . . Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield.“ When „David Copperfield‘ appeared in 1850, after „Dombey […]
Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens Little Dorrit was published 1856-57, when the author’s popularity was at its height. The plot is a slight one on which to hang more than fifty characters. The author began with the intention of emphasizing the fact that individuals brought together by chance, if only for an instant, continue henceforth […]
Great Expectations
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Dickens’s tenth novel, was published in 1861, nine years before his death. As in „David Copperfield,“ the hero tells his own story from boyhood. Yet in several essential points „Great Expectations“ is markedly different from „David Copperfield,“ and from Dickens’s other novels. Owing to the simplicity of the plot, and […]
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens „In these times of ours,“ are the opening words of this book, which was published in England in 1864-65. The scene is laid in London and its immediate neighborhood. All the elaborate machinery dear to Dickens’s heart is here introduced. There is the central story of Our Mutual Friend, […]
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens “The Pickwick Papers” is the one novel of Dickens that abounds neither in pathetic, grewsome, nor dramatic passages. It is pure fun from beginning to end, with a laugh on every page. It attained immediate success and laid the foundations of Dickens’s fame. The types illustrated are caricatures, but […]