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What is the best Dickens novel to read?

If I were going to read a Dickens novel, which should I choose?

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  • 9 years ago
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    David Copperfield is incredibly powerful. It's one of my favorite novels of all time.

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    4 years ago

    Best Dickens Novel

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    4 years ago

    Oliver Twist (1838) is Charles Dickens' 2nd novel. The e book grew to become into initially revealed in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial, in month-to-month installments that began to seem interior the month of February 1837 and persevered by way of April 1839. George Cruikshank offered one metallic etching consistent with month as an occasion each and each installment. Oliver Twist is the 1st English novel with a toddler protagonist, and is likewise magnificent for Dickens' unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives. The e book's subtitle, The Parish Boy's progression alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's progression and additionally to a pair of common 18th-century comedian strip sequence via William Hogarth, "A Rake's progression" and "A Harlot's progression." An early occasion of the social novel, the e book calls the time-honored public's interest to multiple present day social evils, inclusive of the workhouse, toddler labour and the recruitment of youngsters as criminals. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of the time via surrounding the unconventional's severe subject concerns with sarcasm and dark humour. the unconventional could have been stimulated via the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of his hardships as a toddler laborer in a cotton mill grew to become into extensively study interior the 1830s. Oliver Twist has been the project of multiple action picture and tv ameliorations, and is the foundation for a exceptionally effective British musical, Oliver!.

  • 9 years ago

    I guess you mean Charles Dickens, well, "the great expectations" is really catching, and "a Christmas carol" is also great.

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