Charles Dickens is the greatest writer of the Victorian era who became the classic of English literature while still being alive. This book contains the cream of author's creations. Here can be found an amusing novel about the adventures of English gentlemen The Pickwick Papers and fascinating story Great Expectations about wealth that came upon a young apprentice Pip. The book is garnished with such novels as Oliver Twist which is about a young vagrant who unexpectedly finds relatives and David Copperfield that describes the power of human will in overcoming any difficulties on the way to happiness. Dickens can be called one of the most human loving authors, he teaches the reader to be sincerely happy or sad. To be sad because of the horrible misery the characters of his books feel, to be happy due to kind and soft humour inseparable with the narration of his characters' life adventures.
Contents:
– A Tale of Two Cities
– Great Expectations
– A Christmas Carol in Prose
– Hard Times
– Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress
– David Copperfield
– Bleak house
– The Pickwick Papers
– Our Mutual Friend
– Little Dorrit
– The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
– The Old Curiosity Shop
– American Notes for General Circulation
– Dombey and Son
– The Mystery of Edwin Drood
– A tale of the riots of 'eighty
– Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
– Three Ghost Stories
– Hunted Down
– Pictures from Italy
– A child's history of England
– To be Read at Dusk
– The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home
– The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
– Holiday Romance
– The Lamplighter
– The Seven Poor Travellers — In Three Chapters
– Mugby Junction
– George Silverman's Explanation
– The Wreck of the Golden Mary
– Doctor Marigold
– Master Humphrey's Clock
– The Battle of Life
– Mudfog and Other Sketches
Over de auteur
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) 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.