1. Dickens‘ Novels
Tuulike Valliste
2010

2. Novels: “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club” (1836 -1837)
“Oliver Twist” (1837 – 1839)
“Nicholas Nickleby” (1838 – 1839)
“The Old Curiosity Shop” (1840 – 1841)
“A Christmas Carol” (1843)
“The Cricket on the Heart” (1845)
“The Battle of Life” (1846)
“David Copperfield” (1849 – 1850)
“Bleak House” (1852 – 1853)
“Little Dorrit” (1855 – 1857)
“Great Expectations” (1860 – 1861)
“Our Mutual Friend” (1864 – 1865)

3. Characterization First appeared in magazines A particular rhythm
Punctuated by cliffhangers
A novel cost 31 shillings in 1836, average worker earned 6 to 20 shillings per week
Subjects: the life of poor people and
money
A happy ending

4. His heroes are either entirely good or entirely wicked
Believable personalities
Vivid physical descriptions

5. “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”
His first novel
The world of fairy – tales
Samuel Pickwick
Pickwick – mad England

6. “The Adventures of Oliver Twist”
Dickens` second novel
Story of the orphan Oliver
Workhouses
Undertaker
Mr Brownlow and Rose
People could not be
spoiled if they were
born good and honest

7. “David Copperfield” Dickens: “Of all my books I like this the best.”
Dickens' eighth novel is an autobiography
Ability to make the reader see through the eyes of the child
David is an orphan
Realistic picture of the total English
bourgeois society in the middle of
the XIX century

8. The lower classes are capable of real love and devotion
The bourgeoisie and the aristocracy are spoiled by the money
Dickens’s humour, optimism and sympathy

9. „Nicholas Nickleby“

10. “A Christmas Carol”

11. Thank you!