This wonderful short story introduces us to the old, miserly Scrooge who is more interested in his money-lending and counting the pennies than he is in bothering to celebrate Christmas. Indeed, he revels in...
It is a little book written four-handedly in 1857 by two friends: Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The first part is better, where the English sense of humor, nonchalance and entertainment stand out… The...
Nell Trent lives in poverty with his grandfather unsuccessfully running a shop, and they are forced to borrow from the deformed dwarf Daniel Quilp. Unable to keep up payments, the grandfather tries gambling...
These are the affairs handled by the shipping firm "Dombey and Son". Dombey is rich and loses his wife in childbirth. The son, Paul, is sent to Dr Blimber's school but dies after an illness. The daughter is...
The Trial for Murder is a collaborative work, written by Dickens and Charles Allston Collins. It is a mystery story and it was published in 1866 in Three Ghost stories.
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It is a ghost story and in fact it was published as Three Ghost stories. A year before he wrote the story, on 9 June 1865 the Staplehurst rail crash took place. The train in which Dickens was...
This book was written alongside Elisabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Procter, George Sala, and Hesba Stretton. It serves as a novel as well as ghost stories by different authors. The narrator –maybe Dickens–...