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Our Mutual Friend is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. Dickens explores the conflict between doing what society expects and the idea of being true to oneself. The novel centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life.

The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Nell Trent, the protagonist of this novel, is an overwhelmingly good little girl who is orphaned into the care of her Grandfather, the purveyor of an odds and ends shop. Her grandfather is a benevolent man, yet he hides behind a dark secret, he has been consumed with the habit of gambling, eventually he gambles away his shop to ...

A sense of impending evil hovers over a cathedral town, where one man, an outwardly respectable opium addict, is consumed with jealousy over the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, to a lovely young lady. So enraged is he, that he even plots the younger man's murder. But Drood's sudden disappearance halts further scheming and leaves only one big mystery. What happened to Edwin Drood ? And what became of his body ? Unfinished at the time of ...

The Battle of Life : A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence the title. The only one of the five Christmas B...

Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of a shipping company, dreams of having a son to continue his business, despite the fact that he already has a daughter named Florence. The book begins when his son is born and Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth. The child, named Paul after his father, dies of illness when he is still only six years old. Dombey has neglected Florence for years, and now devastated, he pushes her away from him after the ...

Martin Chuzzlewit is suspicious - and with good reason. His relatives think he's dying and they're flocking to his side from near and far in eager anticipation of inheriting his vast wealth. Their greed and selfishness has made him a misanthrope, and when he finds his namesake grandson romancing his ward, the old man's wrath drives young Martin off to America to seek his fortune. Dickens' declared this, his sixth novel, as "immeasurably the b...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean and miserly old man, who seems incorrigible, even on the eve of Christmas: he snubs a dinner invitation from his hospitable nephew, acts stingy with his poor employee, and even shouts at charity workers!What happens when Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead best friend and business partner, who has a terrifying warning for him? Will Scrooge have a change of heart this time around?

A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is a historical novel set during the French Revolution. The story follows the lives of Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, an English lawyer, who are both in love with the same woman, Lucie Manette. As the revolution unfolds, the lives of these three characters become increasingly intertwined, and they are forced to confront their own values, loyalties, and sacrifices. Amidst the cha...

The book is a classic that features a lovable boy who, despite all the hardship in his life, never gives up and retains his kind heart. Although the plot starts quite sadly with Oliver's start in life and his upbringing in the orphanage, it develops into a real crime story with a penchant for melodrama and a final, quite rosy ending where almost everyone gets what they deserve. The ending is then a rather concentrated load of information for t...

The tale of a waif's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves, this novel offers a realistic portrait of the correlation between poverty and crime.

Orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dreams of becoming a gentleman -- and one day finds himself in possession of "great expectations." Dickens' finest novel.

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In quella casa c¿era un domestico, che, di solito, come potei capire, accompagnava Steerforth. Era stato da lui assunto in servizio a Oxford, ed era all¿aspetto un modello di rispettabilità. Credo che non sia mai esistito un uomo della sua condizione d¿aspetto più rispettabile. Era taciturno, dal passo morbido e leggero, calmo di modi, deferente, attento, sempre presente quando si aveva bisogno di lui, sempre assente quando di lui non si...