What is your favorite Dickens novel?
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Re: What is your favorite Dickens novel?
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Interesting! You are the first to mention Our Mutual Friend. It's not one of his more popular novels. I like it too - for me, David Copperfield and Bleak House are my favorites, but Our Mutual Friend is among my top 4 or 5.casper wrote:Our Mutual Friend, with A Tale of Two Cities close second. I love Dickens' books and it's really hard to pick s favourite.
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Dombey and Son was the first Dickens I ever read, bought from a second hand book shop for 3p when I was eleven, and that got me hooked. I haven't read Barnaby Rudge for years so that really deserves a reread when I can get hold of a copy.David Dawson wrote:Agree that Our Mutual Friend is up there. I mentioned on another thread that I recently read them in order of publication and, while Pickwick Papers is great and I think Barnaby Rudge is massively underrated, I think from Dombey and Son onwards he just moves into another gear.
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Dickens' works are online. You can read them all for free without even downloading anything. One site is literaturepage.com.casper wrote:Dombey and Son was the first Dickens I ever read, bought from a second hand book shop for 3p when I was eleven, and that got me hooked. I haven't read Barnaby Rudge for years so that really deserves a reread when I can get hold of a copy.David Dawson wrote:Agree that Our Mutual Friend is up there. I mentioned on another thread that I recently read them in order of publication and, while Pickwick Papers is great and I think Barnaby Rudge is massively underrated, I think from Dombey and Son onwards he just moves into another gear.
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Dickens wrote 14 novels and was working on a 15th when he died. Oliver Twist was one of his earlier works, before he really hit his stride as a storyteller par excellence. May I suggest some of his later works: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend. These works represent, in my opinion, the apex of Dickens' creativity as both a writer and storyteller, and solidify his place as one of the greatest English language novelists.Little House wrote:I enjoyed Oliver Twist when I read it last year, but I don't remember any of his other novels. I do remember that I read at least Great Expectations in high school, but somehow I don't remember much of the required reading of high school. (The fact that high school was almost 30 years ago has nothing to do with it, right? ) I didn't realize that Dickens wrote so many other books. I did know that for his serials he got paid by the word, and this explains a lot of his wordiness. I am going to add some of his other books to my list of books to read.
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Thank you. I came back to this thread to request a recommendation and you have answered my question before I asked it. Now that is service.PashaRu wrote:Dickens wrote 14 novels and was working on a 15th when he died. Oliver Twist was one of his earlier works, before he really hit his stride as a storyteller par excellence. May I suggest some of his later works: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend. These works represent, in my opinion, the apex of Dickens' creativity as both a writer and storyteller, and solidify his place as one of the greatest English language novelists.Little House wrote:I enjoyed Oliver Twist when I read it last year, but I don't remember any of his other novels. I do remember that I read at least Great Expectations in high school, but somehow I don't remember much of the required reading of high school. (The fact that high school was almost 30 years ago has nothing to do with it, right? ) I didn't realize that Dickens wrote so many other books. I did know that for his serials he got paid by the word, and this explains a lot of his wordiness. I am going to add some of his other books to my list of books to read.
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My pleasure. We aim to please!Little House wrote:Thank you. I came back to this thread to request a recommendation and you have answered my question before I asked it. Now that is service.PashaRu wrote:Dickens wrote 14 novels and was working on a 15th when he died. Oliver Twist was one of his earlier works, before he really hit his stride as a storyteller par excellence. May I suggest some of his later works: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend. These works represent, in my opinion, the apex of Dickens' creativity as both a writer and storyteller, and solidify his place as one of the greatest English language novelists.Little House wrote:I enjoyed Oliver Twist when I read it last year, but I don't remember any of his other novels. I do remember that I read at least Great Expectations in high school, but somehow I don't remember much of the required reading of high school. (The fact that high school was almost 30 years ago has nothing to do with it, right? ) I didn't realize that Dickens wrote so many other books. I did know that for his serials he got paid by the word, and this explains a lot of his wordiness. I am going to add some of his other books to my list of books to read.