A collection which brings together perhaps the four finest of Charles Dickens' shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the brilliance of his story-telling.
Dickens's sense of comedy and concern with the human psyche are evident in tales of the supernatural, impressionistic sketches, and dramatic monologues
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol.
Oh, Father, so much better than the fathers upon earth! Oh, Father, so much more afflicted by the errors of Thy children! take this wanderer back! Not as he is, but as he was then, let him cry to Thee, as he has so often seemed to cry ...
Reproduction of the original: Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
I read that story over and over again , with the most unspeakable delight . ... on the latter's less successful return visit to England illustrate not only what he apparently viewed as Andersen's taste in short stories but also what the ...
In his shorter fiction, Dickens investigated hitherto unexplored themes and engaged in experiments with narrative techniques. This collection focuses on his tales of the supernatural, impressionistic sketches, and dramatic monologues.
Out of the Season and Out of Town are short stories by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
... characters is an English Lord—Lord William Falkland—who is called throughout the piece Milor Williams Fack Lorn, ... The play is a compound of Paradise Lost and Byron's Cain; and some of the controversies between the archangel and ...
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This Penguin Classics edition is edited with notes and an introduction by Dennis Walder. Published under the pen-name 'Boz', Charles Dickens's first book Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature.