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Charles Dickens
Introduction
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7 1812 and died on June 9 1870.
He was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional
characters and many think he was the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
He was born in Portsmouth. Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was
incarcerated.
Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels,
five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed
readings extensively and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education and other
social reforms.
About his life
His father's brief work as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office afforded him a few years of private education, first at a dame school and then at a school run by
William Giles.
In 1833, he submitted his first story, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk", to the London periodical Monthly Magazine.
Dickens's literary success began in 1836 when he published The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity,
famous for his humour, satire and keen observation of character and society. His plots were carefully constructed and he often wrote about topical
events into his narratives.
In December 1845, Dickens took up the editorship of the London-based Daily News, a liberal paper
through which Dickens hoped to advocate, in his own words, "the Principles of Progress and
Improvement, of Education and Civil and Religious Liberty and Equal Legislation”.
In 1857, Dickens hired professional actresses for the play The Frozen Deep, written by him and his protégé,
Wilkie Collins. Dickens fell in love with one of the actresses, Ellen Ternan, and this passion was to last the rest
of his life.
On 8 June 1870, Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood.
A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads:
“To the Memory of Charles Dickens who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June
1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his
death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.”
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Great expectations is the 13th novel written by Charles Dickens. It is a coming-of-age story and a buildungsroman, which tells
the story of an orphan nicknamed Pip. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year
Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Charles Dickens considered “Great

Expectations” his best work, calling it "a
very fine idea"
In the 21st century, the novel
retains good ratings among
literary critics and in 2003 it was
ranked 17th on the BBc’s The Big
Great Expectations has Read poll.
been translated into many
languages and adapted
many times to movies and
other media.
1 Pip grows up in the marshlands of Kent,
where he lives with his sister and her PLOT SUMMARY
Before departing, Pip visits Satis House, where
husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. 4 he confronts Miss Havisham for letting him
While visiting his family members’
graves in the churchyard, Pip meets an believe she was his patron. He also professes
Later Pip is requested to pay visits to
escaped convict. his love to Estella, who rejects him. Knowing
Miss Havisham. Living with Miss Havisham
at Satis House is her adopted daughter, that Drummle is pursuing her, Pip warns her
2 Estella. Pip, later falls in love with Estella. He about him, but she announces that she plans to
grows increasing ashamed of his humble marry him.
background and hopes to become a
gentleman, in part to win over Estella.
As Pip and Magwitch attempt to leave London, the police

3 Several years later a lawyer named Mr. Jaggers
appears and informs Pip that an anonymous arrives. The two convicts end up fighting in the Thames, and
benefactor has made it possible for him to go to only Magwitch surfaces. The injured Magwitch is arrested,
London for an education; Once in London, Pip is and dies awaiting execution.Pip later accepts a job offer at
taught to be a gentleman by Matthew Pocket and the Cairo branch of Herbert’s firm, and he enjoys a simple
his son Herbert. The increasingly snobbish Pip is but content life. After more than 10 years away, he returns to
later horrified to discover that his mysterious England and visits the place where Satis House once stood.
benefactor is Magwitch. Pip reveals the situation to
There he encounters Estella, who is now a widow. As they
Herbert.
leave, Pip takes her hand, believing that they will not part
again.
PLOT SUMMARY
Scrooge is confronted by a series of spirits on Christmas Eve,
starting with his old business associate, Jacob Marley. The
Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, the three
spirits that follow, show Scrooge how his mean conduct has
influenced those around him.
At the end of the story he is relieved to discover that there is still
time for him to change and we see him transformed into a
generous and kind-hearted human being.
A CHRISTMAS
CAROL
This story was written by Charles Dickens
in 1843. There was a Christmas tradition of
reading ghost stories at the time, which
shows why Scrooge encounters so many
spirits. The concepts of wealth and
deprivation are direct references to
Victorian England's wealth distribution
inequalities.
David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens. Like his other novels, it first came out as a series in a
magazine under the title The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David
Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery.
The story is told in the first person. Some of the greatest Dickens characters appear in the novel, such as
the evil clerk Uriah Heep. Other villains in David's life are his brutal stepfather, Edward Murdstone, and
Mr. Creakle, the headmaster of the boarding school that Murdstone sends him to.
The evil characters are balanced by the good characters, such as

Peggotty – the faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a
lifelong companion to David. Others include David's aunt Betsy
Trotwood and her friend. Agnes Wickfield is a close friend of David
since childhood, and later becomes David's second wife and
mother of their children. Mr. Micawber is a gentle and friendly man
who goes to debtors' prison, but in the end makes a success as a
sheep farmer in Australia. He is based on Dickens's own father.
Charles Dickens' fifteenth novel, illustrated by Luke Fildes, was his last one and it was never
completed.
The story is a murder mystery in which Edwin Drood is supposedly murdered and suspicion
is cast on his uncle.
Dickens left exactly half of the monthly installments unfinished when, after a day of working
on the completion of chapter 22, he suffered a stroke on June 8, 1870 and died the next day.
Although early in planning the novel Dickens told his friend John Forster that he had an idea
for a novel in which a nephew would be murdered by his uncle, Dickens guarded the mystery
very closely while writing the story. Much conjecture about the actual outcome of the novel
has taken place and The Mystery of Edwin Drood remains a mystery to this day.
Plot Summary
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry
orphan Rosa.
Edwin confesses to his uncle that he has some
misgivings about his marriage to Rosa Bud.
Rosa is informed that she has inherited a substantial amount from her parents and that the
fortune doesn't have any requirement that she has to marry Edwin. They agree to end their
marriage the next day.
On Christmas Eve Edwin goes missing during a windstorm leaving behind only some personal
belongings
That night, Jasper is grief-stricken when he is informed that Edwin and Rosa had ended their
betrothal; he reacts more strongly to this news than to the prospect that Edwin may be dead.
Dickens never finished his novel but many suspect that the killer is Jasper as there are some
clues during the novel that incriminate him.

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