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Charles Dickens
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  • … As Charles Dickens said at the beginning of [A] Tale of Two Cities, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'†   (source)
  • Here's a partial list: Ralph Touchett in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and Milly Theale inhis later The Wings of the Dove (1902), Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Paul Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1848), Mimi in Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896), Hans Castorp and his fellow patients at the sanatorium in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), Michael Furey in Joyce's "The Dead," Eugene Gant's father in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time…†   (source)
  • -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Dustfinger set out when the night could grow no darker.†   (source)
  • Leaving the earbuds dangling over his shoulders, he checked the book list in his hand, then looked at the shelves again: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, twenty-seven volumes, red leather binding.†   (source)
  • Anyway, he wrote this play called The Christmas Angel, because he didn't want to keep on performing that old Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol.†   (source)
  • Scrooge was the miserly capitalist in A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.†   (source)
  • Now she was roosting comfortably in the stern, nibbling bits of jerky and reciting random lines from Charles Dickens and 50 Tricks to Teach Your Dog.†   (source)
  • Charles the Fifth; Charles Dickens; Prince Charles.†   (source)
  • Charles Dickens recruited you.†   (source)
  • Her goddam hat blows off and he catches it, and then they go upstairs and sit down and start talking about Charles Dickens.†   (source)
  • Charles Dickens is an English writer.†   (source)
  • One measure of my love for Our Wonder World was that for a long time I wondered if Iwould go through fire and water for it as my mother had done for Charles Dickens; and the only comfort was to think I could ask my mother to do it for me.†   (source)
  • I've read a Raymond Chandler, and right now I'm halfway through Hard Times, by Charles Dickens.†   (source)
  • Moodie," says Reverend Verringer, "has stated publicly that she is very fond of Charles Dickens, and in especial of Oliver Twist.†   (source)
  • -Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Elinor had been driving for more than an hour before she finally reached a town with its own police station.†   (source)
  • If someone ever presumed to teach Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy or Robertson Davies to my Bishop Strachan students with the same, shallow, superficial understanding that I'm sure I possess of world affairs—or, even, American wrongdoing—I would be outraged.†   (source)
  • Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business.†   (source)
  • But then, when I met Charles Dickens, he'd already retired and turned the Geographica over to Jules, who in turn recruited me."†   (source)
  • I'll have them send a whole set of Charles Dickens to you, right up the river from Baltimore, in a barrel.'†   (source)
  • "Dear Charles Dickens,' he murmured, smiling a little at his own emotion.†   (source)
  • A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens   (source)
  • LV Philip's ideas of the life of medical students, like those of the public at large, were founded on the pictures which Charles Dickens drew in the middle of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • Now and then came a flash of cockney humour, now and then some old lady, a character such as Charles Dickens might have drawn, would amuse them by her garrulous oddities.†   (source)
  • THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens AUTHOR'S PREFACE This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed "Pickwick Papers."†   (source)
  • Hard Times by Charles Dickens Hard Times BOOK THE FIRST — SOWING CHAPTER I — THE ONE THING NEEDFUL 'NOW, what I want is, Facts.†   (source)
  • Little Dorrit — Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years.†   (source)
  • DAVID COPPERFIELD by CHARLES DICKENS PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.†   (source)
  • OLIVER TWIST OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble…†   (source)
  • PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require.†   (source)
  • He read all of Charles Dickens (whom he no longer called Dahl's Chickens), and all of Shakespeare and literally thousands of other books.†   (source)
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