Charles Dickens
Born
in Portsmouth, England
February 07, 1812
Died
June 09, 1870
Genre
Influences
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A Tale of Two Cities
9310 editions
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published
1859
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A Christmas Carol
9928 editions
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published
1843
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Great Expectations
3254 editions
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published
1861
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Oliver Twist
7443 editions
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published
1838
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David Copperfield
1393 editions
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published
1850
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Bleak House
2022 editions
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published
1853
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Hard Times
3518 editions
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published
1854
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A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth
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209 editions
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published
1843
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Little Dorrit
1324 editions
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published
1857
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Nicholas Nickleby
1575 editions
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published
1839
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“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
Polls
January 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Poll
1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pages
1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
1961, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages
1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
1853, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 363 pages
1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages
1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages
1861, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages
1851, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages
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