Showing posts with label Charles Dickens. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Thursday's Thirteen: Charles Dickens

Happy birthday, Charles John Huffam Dickens

February 1812 – 9 June 1870 He was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic novels and characters.

Here are thirteen of his books. These are of coarse not all of his work.

  1. The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) 
  2. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839) 
  3. The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841) 
  4. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841) 
  5. The Christmas books: A Christmas Carol (1843) 
  6. The Chimes (1844) 
  7. The Cricket on the Hearth (1845) 
  8. The Battle of Life (1846) 
  9. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848) 
  10. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844) 
  11. David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850) 
  12. Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853) 
  13. A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)
Which book of Dickens do have you enjoyed reading?