Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens was a leader in changing the world culture to a more positive and tolerant world. His Christmas Carol, redefined Christmas. His novel, Oliver Twist, started the change in attitudes of Victorian English about the poor.

• 1836 "Dinner at Poplar Walk"
  ____. Sketches by Boz
• 1836-37 Pickwick Papers text -- overview
• 1837-39 Oliver Twist text -- overview
• 1838-39 Nicholas Nickleby text -- overview
• 1840-41 The Old Curiosity Shop text -- overview
• 1841 Barnaby Rudge text -- overview
• 1842 American Notes text of ch.7 -- overview
• 1843 Martin Chuzzlewit text -- overview -- introduction
• ____. A Christmas Carol text -- overview -- introduction
• 1844 The Chimes text -- overview -- commentary
  
• 1845 The Cricket and the Hearth text -- overview
• 1846 The Battle of Life text -- overview
• 1846-48 Dombey and Son text -- overview
• 1848 The Haunted Man text -- overview -- introduction
• 1849-50 David Copperfield text at George Valsamis' SITE -- overview
• 1851-53 Bleak House text -- overview
• 1854 Hard Times text -- overview
• 1855-57 Little Dorrit text -- overview
• 1857 The Frozen Deep -- discussion
• 1857 "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (with Wilkie Collins) text -- overview
• 1859 A Tale of Two Cities text -- overview
• 1860-61 Great Expectations text -- overview
• 1864-65 Our Mutual Friend text -- overview
• 1869-70 The Mystery of Edwin Drood text (Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia Library.)
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