3. Stories and essays

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• "A Christmas Carol" (1843) by Charles Dickens

  14 November 2020 by Charles Dickens

  A Christmas Carol was a huge hit in both England and the United States when it was published shortly before Christmas in 1843.
  This 29,000-word novella was instrumental in reinvigorating popular enthusiasm for the Christmas season among the general public on both sides of the Atlantic, and it (...)

• "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens

  4 October 2015 by Charles Dickens

  William Thackeray, author of the immortal Vanity Fair, wrote a number of other highly-regarded and well-selling novels during his very successful career, notably the well-known historical blockbuster novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Catherine (whose central character is a rather nasty female (...)

• "Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions" (1865) - a great late story by Charles Dickens

  20 December 2014 by Charles Dickens

  This strikingly original and distinctly off-beat exploration of the mindset and life experiences of a Cheap Jack (a gypsy-like hawker of odd goods at country fairs and public places throughout the land) is darker and more sombre than the tales in his much earlier collections Sketches by Boz (...)

• Comments on "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens

  26 March 2005 by Charles Dickens

  In this very big and wide-ranging opus Dickens follows his eponymous heroine from the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors in south London, where she had lived for the first twenty-plus years of her life and the first half of the book, across France and Switzerland with her newly-rich family on a (...)