The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens - This Collection Brings Together Perhaps The Finest of Dickens Shorter Novels, Filled With Event, Character, And The Unsurpassed Brilliance of His Story Telling. Oliver Twist Enhanced And Strengthened Dickens Reputation And Contains Classic Dickensian Themes Grinding Poverty, Desperation, Fear, Temptation And The Eventual Triumph of Good in The Face of Great Adversity. Hard Times Was Attacked by Macaulay For Its Sullen Socialism, But 20Th-Century Critics George Bernard Shaw And F. R. Leavis Praised it in The Highest Terms. A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens Greatest Historical Novel, Traces The Lives of a Group of People Caught up in The Cataclysm of The French Revolution And The Terror. A Fascinating Range of Characters And Dickens Usual Superb Command of Language Combine to Make This an Exciting And Tantalizing Story. Great Expectations Traces The Life of Philip Pirrip (Pip), From a Body of Shallow Dreams to a Man of Character. From Its Dramatic Opening on The Bleak Kentish Marshes. ISBN: 9781840220599