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| − | [[Charles Dickens]] wrote 15 novels, roughly 4 million words in length:<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20663427</ref> | + | [[Charles Dickens]] wrote 15 novels, roughly 4 million words in total length:<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20663427</ref> |
#The Pickwick Papers – 1836-37 (a mockery of the justice system) | #The Pickwick Papers – 1836-37 (a mockery of the justice system) | ||
#Oliver Twist – 1837-39) (the first edition had a longer biblical title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress; the character Fagin was named after Bob Fagin, was was a fellow employee met by Charles Dickens as youngster working at a blacking factory) | #Oliver Twist – 1837-39) (the first edition had a longer biblical title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress; the character Fagin was named after Bob Fagin, was was a fellow employee met by Charles Dickens as youngster working at a blacking factory) | ||
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Charles Dickens wrote 15 novels, roughly 4 million words in total length:[1]
- The Pickwick Papers – 1836-37 (a mockery of the justice system)
- Oliver Twist – 1837-39) (the first edition had a longer biblical title, Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress; the character Fagin was named after Bob Fagin, was was a fellow employee met by Charles Dickens as youngster working at a blacking factory)
- Nicholas Nickleby – 1838-39 (Mrs. Nickleby was modeled after Dickens' mother)
- The Old Curiosity Shop – 1840-41
- Barnaby Rudge – 1841 (an historical novel about the Gordon Riots of 1780)
- Martin Chuzzlewit – 1843-44 (written after an unpleasant trip to the United States by Dickens)
- Dombey and Son – 1846-48 (Dickens read this work to friends, and then to the public)
- David Copperfield – 1849-50 (Dickens' 8th and favorite novel)
- Bleak House – 1852-53 (a character dies oddly by spontaneous combustion; also a criticism of the legal system, a never-ending Chancery case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and the title is the name of their family home)[2]
- Hard Times – 1854 (an insightful criticism of utilitarianism)
- Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured)
- A Tale of Two Cities – 1859 (perhaps Dickens' most famous work)
- Great Expectations – 1860-81 (about dreams of becoming a gentleman)
- Our Mutual Friend – 1864 (Dickens' last completed novel, focusing on the "dust" business)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood – 1870 (halfway completed by Dickens when he died)
Novella
A Christmas Carol (1843) was a novella, short in length.