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Collection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and orphaned at ...

Dickens offers us in Hard Times (1854) a morally serious content cast in the form of popular entertainment. The principal motive of Hard Times is t...

Great Expectations is a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and is full of comic and tragic twists. It is generally considered to be...

Oliver twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh poor law of 1834 and a grim picture of the sordid reality The London underworld of Dickens's times, s...

Charles Dickens (1812--1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is gen...

When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their f...

Charles Dickens (1812—1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is gene...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

Special Features: leaderu.com Though she uses a number of texts (by em Forster, Richard Wright, Walt Whitman), her key and recurrent model is Dicke...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.In the heart of...

Dickens captured the popular imagination as no other novelist had done, and notwithstanding some murmurs against his sentimentality, sensationalism...

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental moralizing, and me...

It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in thi...

Written in an accessible and manageable style, the books in the Contexts series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, litera...

Studies in Fiction deals with George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens...

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English no...

Since its first publication in February 1897 Herford’s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romantic...

The essays included in this volume constitute the first volume of a new series Studies in Literature in English. It is extremely fascinating to see...