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[[Charles Dickens]] wrote 15 novels:
#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)
#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)
[[category:English Authors]]
[[category:novels]]

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