Charles Dickens Novels Flashcards
the president of his namesake “club,” sets out with fellow members Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, and Augustus Snodgrass on a series of coach journeys to sites in provincial England
The Pickwick Papers
Mc is brought up in a, where he horrifies the beadle Mr. Bumble by asking for more food. After fighting with the bully Noah Claypole, mc runs away to London. On the road he meets the pickpocket Jack Dawkins, known as the “Artful Dodger,” who leads him to the den of the criminal Fagin
Oliver Twist
Mc is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall by his cruel uncle Ralph. With the help of the disabled Smike, he beats the foul schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, and escapes to London
Nicholas Nickleby
Nell Trent goes to live with her grandfather, a gambling addict who owns a London shop filled with mysterious and horrible objects. His gambling causes him to lose the shop to the evil dwarfish moneylender Daniel Quilp
The Old Curiosity Shop
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future
A Christmas Carol
After Mc’s father dies, his mother marries the cruel Mr. Murdstone. Mc is sent to a school where he is tormented by the headmaster Creakle, but finds comfort in his friendships with Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth
David Copperfield
The title home is owned by John Jarndyce, who cares for his young relatives Richard Carstone and Ada Clare. Ada has a companion named Esther Summerson, who narrates much of the novel
Bleak House
Thomas Gradgrind is a fact-obsessed utilitarian from Coketown, in the north of England. He superintends a school whose students include an ambitious boy named Bitzer, and Sissy Jupe, a young member of Mr. Sleary’s traveling circus
Hard Times
this novel, which famously begins “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” At the start of the novel, the French doctor Alexandre Manette is released after 18 years in the Bastille, where he was imprisoned to prevent him from revealing the crimes of the Evrémonde family
A Tale of Two Cities
The narrator Philip Pirrip, who is nicknamed “Pip,” is brought up by his sister and her kind husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. While visiting a churchyard, Pip meets the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, and renders him aid
Great Expectations
