Dickens Works Flashcards
The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members)
Dickens’ 1st novel, published 1836, using pen name “Boz” - A sequence of loosely related adventures of Samuel Pickwick, y other members of his Pickwick Club traveling thru remote parts of England - Humorous character Sam Weller became very popular leading to book’s success
Oliver Twist (or The Parish Boy’s Progress)
Dickens’ 2nd novel, publ.1837 - About orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse y is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker; He escapes, y travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by elderly criminal Fagin
Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
Dickens’ 3rd novel, published 1838 - Centers on the life y adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother y sister Kate after his father dies; while fighting with his uncle Ralph Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens’ 4th novel, serialized in 1840, published 1841 - Beautiful orphan girl Nell Trent lives with her grandfather in his shop of odds and ends; he gambles to provide her with a better life, and ends up facing the wrath of evil loan shark Daniel Quilp - So popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841
Barnaby Rudge (A Tale of the Riots of Eighty)
Dickens’ 5th novel, published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial Master Humphrey’s Clock in 1841 - Set during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, several plots of mystery, murder, y conspiracy play out as Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton, wanders in and out of the story with his pet raven, Grip - Dickens’ least read novel - Inspiration for Poe’s poem The Raven (1845)
