Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist (version 2)

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in...

Arthur Piantadosi and 1 more 17 hours 28 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Old Curiosity Shop (version 2)

Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Trent and her Grandfather are the main characters, who secretly set off from...

Mil Nicholson 24 hours 9 minutes

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge (version 2)

One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their...

Mil Nicholson 29 hours 1 minute

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Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has «great expectations» of a future inheritance from...

Mark F. Smith 20 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son (version 2)

Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business....

Cynthia Lyons 44 hours 35 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge

A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the...

Debra Lynn 24 hours 17 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Seven Poor Travellers

One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens' visit to the ancient Richard Watts's Charity at Rochester....

Ruth Golding 1 hour 11 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848 under the title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail...

Mil Nicholson 40 hours 22 minutes

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Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is...

Ellis Christoff 36 hours 10 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Three Ghost Stories

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the...

Muhammad Mussnoon and 1 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

«David Copperfield» or «The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery» was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it...

valikojohn and 23 more 35 hours 41 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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