Author
Charles Dickens
1812–1870 3 volumes Literary Classics
The life
Charles Dickens was an English novelist and the most popular writer of the Victorian age. Sent at twelve to work in a blacking factory while his father sat in debtors' prison, he drew on that humiliation for the rest of his career. Published in monthly parts, novels such as Oliver Twist, Bleak House and Great Expectations reached an audience no author had held before and pressed steadily at the injustices of his day.
Where to start
Mugby Junction
56 pages — the shortest way into Dickens, not the greatest.
“You’ll have, sir,” said the guard, glistening with drops of wet, and looking at the tearful face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveler descended, “three minutes here.”
Paintings from these volumes
In the library