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Dickens, Charles John Huffam
Christmas Carol, A
David Copperfield
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Tale of Two Cities, A
English Literature: The Victorian Era
Novel: Britain
adaptations of his works
biographers
birthplace
critics
excerpts from Dickens’ works
founding of London Library
friends and associates
illustration of works
influences on Charles Dickens
literary forms and genres
pen name, Boz
quotations
Academics: There was no light nonsense…
Accidents: Accidents will occur in the…
Admiration: "She's the sort of woman…
Age: Train up a fig-tree in…
Alcohol: "Did you ever taste beer?"…
Alcohol: "It wasn't the wine," murmured…
Alcohol: Bring in the bottled lightning,…
Americans: I love and honour very many of the people…
Appearance: A Being, erect upon two…
Appearance: All is gas and gaiters.
Appearance: Any man may be in…
Appearance: He had but one eye,…
Appearance: It was not a bosom…
Appearance: Oh gracious, why wasn't I…
Appetite: Subdue your appetites my dears,…
Arguments: The Nation is a body without a head; and…
Babies: Every baby born into the…
Babies: Language was not powerful enough…
Blessing: "God bless us every one!"…
Boys: I only know two sorts…
Budgets: Annual income twenty pounds, annual…
Bureaucracy: Whatever was required to be…
Business: Here's the rule for bargains:…
Censorship: The question about everything was,…
Character: He'd be sharper than a…
Charity: Our noble society for providing…
Cities: Pittsburgh is like Birmingham in England,…
Class: O let us love our…
Comfort: Mrs Crupp had indignantly assured…
Courtship: Never sign a walentine with…
Criticism: A hideous wry-necked, blubbering, red-haired…
Criticism: Stranger, pause and ask thyself…
Cruelty: I had cherished a profound…
Death and Dying: He'd make a lovely corpse.
Deception: What a world of gammon…
Disillusionment: I never nursed a dear…
Drinks: A double glass o' the…
Education: When he has learnt that…
Emotion: "There are strings," said Mr…
Emotion: Miss Bolo rose from the…
England: Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries,…
Facts: Now, what I want is…
Farewells: Farewell! Be the proud bride…
Fear: I wants to make your…
Food: A highly geological home-made cake.
Food: It was a turkey! He…
Food: Meaty jelly, too, especially when…
Freedom: I only ask to be…
French Revolution: It was the best of…
Friendship: What is the odds so…
Greetings: Wery glad to see you…
Habit: As to Mr Feeder, B.A.,…
Hospitality: In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one…
Human Condition: A wonderful fact to reflect…
Human Condition: On the Rampage, Pip, and…
Humility: I am well aware that…
Humility: We are so very 'umble.
Humor: A lane was made; and…
Hunger: Oliver Twist has asked for…
Hunting: There is a passion for…
Idleness: Minds like bodies, will often…
Ignorance: Say, like those wicked Turks,…
Information: I only ask for information.
Insincerity: With affection beaming in one…
Insults: The words she spoke of…
Intelligence: "That 'ere young lady," replied…
Investment: Buy an annuity cheap, and…
Investment: Get hold of portable property.
Judgment: I expect a judgment. Shortly…
Knowledge: A smattering of everything, and…
Language: I am afeered that werges…
Lawyers: Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery…
Lawyers: If there were no bad…
Literacy: "Do you spell it with…
Literature: The unities, sir, are a…
Love: If you could see my…
Malapropisms: Sir, My pa requests me…
Marriage: "Halloa! Here's a church! .…
Marriage: "Old girl," said Mr Bagnet,…
Marriage: "When a man says he's…
Marriage: Barkis is willin'.
Marriage: He proposed seven times once in a…
Marriage: It's my old girl that…
Marriage: Oh, Mrs Corney, what a…
Meetings: It's my opinion, sir, that…
Misfortune: "I am a lone lorn…
Money: I have seen so little happiness come of…
Names: Known by the sobriquet of…
Nationality: Some people may be Rooshans,…
Newspapers: All the wickedness of the…
Obsessions: Cows are my passion.
Optimism: I have known him come…
Painting: There are only two styles…
Parents: You don't object to an…
Parliaments and Assemblies: I think...that it is the…
Perspective: As she frequently remarked when…
Philosophy: "Mind and matter," said the…
Philosophy: Let us be moral. Let…
Poetry: Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever…
Poetry: Professionally he declines and falls,…
Poverty: "It's a wery remarkable circumstance,…
Poverty: I live on broken wittles—and…
Practicality: Grief never mended no broken…
Praise: O Mrs Higden, Mrs Higden,…
Press: The Nation is a miserable Sindbad, and its…
Presumption: Look here. Upon my soul…
Pride: We've got a private master…
Privacy: We never knows wot's hidden…
Proverbs: "Wal'r, my boy," replied the…
Prudence: "It's always best on these…
Prudence: Take example by your father,…
Relatives: It is a melancholy truth…
Reputation: The dodgerest of the dodgers.
Rhetoric: "It is," says Chadband, "the…
Sacrifice: It is a far, far,…
Sarcasm: "Yes I have a pair…
Sayings: I'll eat my head.
Sayings: I'm Gormed—and I can't say…
Schools: Youth are boarded, clothed, booked…
Secrecy: Dumb as a drum vith…
Servility: Uriah, with his long hands…
Sexes: In company with several other…
Snobbery: "He calls the knaves, Jacks,…
Society: Then came straggling groups of labourers going to…
Solitude: Anythin' for a quiet life,…
Speech: Father is rather vulgar, my…
Stoicism: It's over, and can't be…
Suffering: My life is one demd…
Supernatural, The: "Man of the worldly mind!" replied the Ghost, "do…
Sympathy: "Can I unmoved see thee…
Talent: She's the only sylph I…
Threats: There's a young man hid…
Travel: A likely thing. If it…
Washington, D.C.: It is sometimes called the City of…
Washington, D.C.: Spacious avenues begin in nothing and lead…
Weather: "This is a London particular...A…
Woman's Role: I want to be something…
Work: They don't mind it; it's…
Writers: It does not matter that…
Writers: Of all the great Victorian writers, he was…
Writers: Of Dickens's style it is…
Writers: We were put to Dickens…
settings of his novels
writers influenced by Dickens
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