Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was a British writer. To date, he is considered by many critics to be the best novelist of the Victorian era. This is reflected in the relevance that his fictional characters have acquired in popular culture over the years. Some examples of this are Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Charles Darnay, Philip Pirrip, Miss Havisham and Ebenezer Scrooge.
If transcendence is, then, the ultimate legacy of the highest Literature, then Charles Dickens, even after his death, has remained an immortal manHis work, anchored between Romanticism and literary Realism, has moved, educated, made several generations reflect and enamored them over the last three centuries with titles such as History of two cities y Big hopes.
Short biography
Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, at Gads Hill Place, Landport, United Kingdom. Coming from a middle-class family, Dickens did not receive a formal education until the age of nine. This fact is something that many of his critics have subsequently reproached him for, alleging that he was "too self-taught."
The writer studied Culture at the William Gile School. During this time he showed a particular fondness for reading, and spent a lot of time enjoying picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random y The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, by Tobias Smollett. He also read with a passion Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, who became his favorite author.
I also used to read adventure books, such as Robinson Crusoe y Don Quijote de la Mancha. On the other hand, his father's stay and part of his family in the Marshalsea prison forced him, at the age of twelve, to work ten-hour days at Warren's boot blacking factory. This experience would set the social background for his novels.
All the works of Charles Dickens
Novels
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836 -1837);
- Oliver Twist (1837-1839);
- nicholas nickleby (1838 -1839);
- The antique shop (1840 -1841);
- Barnaby rudge (1841);
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1843 -1844);
- Little Dombey (1846-1848);
- David Copperfield (1849 -1850);
- Desolate house (1852 -1853);
- Hard times (1854);
- Little Dorrit (1855 -1857);
- History of two cities (1859);
- Big hopes (1860 -1861);
- Our common friend (1864 -1865);
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870 – unfinished).
stories
- «A Christmas Carol» (1843);
- «The Bells» (1844);
- «The Cricket on the Hearth» (1845);
- «The Battle of Life» (1846);
- «The Bewitched» (1848);
- «Courageous Men» (1853);
- «A House to Let» (1858);
- "The Signalman" (1866).
Synopsis of Charles Dickens' most notable works
Oliver Twist (1838)
The novel It tells the adventures of Oliver Twist, an orphan boy who is raised in Mrs. Mann's hostel.. Like other children at the orphanage, the protagonist is constantly hungry, so he and his friends come up with a game to ask for more food. Oliver turns out to be the chosen one for this task, but in doing so, he is branded a troublemaker by the management of the place.
Then, Mr. Bumble decides to offer the boy as an apprentice to anyone who happens to be passing by at the time. This is how Oliver ends up working for the undertaker Sowerberry. However, at some point he has a big fight with his employer and decides to escape to London. In the city many disagreements await them, but also a final surprise that changes their destiny forever.
David Copperfield (1850)
This is perhaps Dickens' most autobiographical work., as it reflects the events of his own impoverished childhood and the twists and turns of the young future author to cope with a hard life - although, as always, with a charming ending. The novel follows the story of David Copperfield, his beginnings from childhood to maturity, from an undisciplined heart to a more sensible one.
The book explores all the stages of David's life and the characters that accompany him, as well as the protagonist's professional path, from his childhood full of abuse to his adulthood as a successful writer. These lessons are learned through a series of unforgettable relationships and characters., such as the villain Uriah Heep and the endearing Mr. Micawber.
Great expectations — Great expectations (1861)
It is a novel of black humour and learning, and, at the same time, one of Dickens' most famous works. This is the story of Pip, an orphan who aspires to rise in society thanks to a mysterious benefactor.The play examines the desire for wealth and status, as well as the lessons of humility and loyalty that the protagonist learns along the way.
Dickens offers a profound portrait of human ambitions and the contradictions of social progress. In between, there are impossible loves that could become reality., friendships lost and recovered, second chances and the courage to follow a different path than the one imposed by others.
A Christmas Carol — Christmas Story (1843)
It is a short novel that uses resources such as parables to tell its story. In five chapters called "stanzas", it narrates certain strange events that occur to Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, who experiences a transformation after being visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.
The work is a fable about redemption and the importance of generosity, and has become a timeless classic for the Christmas season. Today it is well known what Dickens thought about the bourgeois class, and how he used to ridicule it in his works. However, through this protagonist, he makes it clear that even the most selfish bourgeoisie is capable of change.
A Tale of Two Cities — A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Set in London and Paris during the French Revolution, This novel tells the story of Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, Two men who are physically similar but lead very different lives, whose paths intersect in a context of political and social chaos. The play is a reflection on sacrifice, love and the consequences of oppression.
The novel is best known for its opening lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."; the age of wisdom, and also of folly; the epoch of belief and of incredulity; the era of light and of darkness; the spring of hope and the winter of despair.
"We possessed everything, but we owned nothing; "We were walking straight to heaven and were going astray on the opposite path. In a word, that age was so similar to the present that our most distinguished authorities insist that, as regards both good and evil, only the superlative comparison is acceptable."
