I love Great Expectations. Therefore it was my vote (although I love most of Dickens work!)
I love Great Expectations. Therefore it was my vote (although I love most of Dickens work!)
Dickens best...Great Expectations
I have only read Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. The last happens to be my favorite.
id say a tale of two cities. david copperfield is up there also and gee its hard not to like the pickwick papers....
I said Tale of Two Cities just because that's been my oldest favorite. But I recently read Bleak House and and slowly fell in love with it. I'm currently reading David Copperfield but I'm missing the humor and sarcasm, the rediculousness from Bleak House.
Great Expectation .. David copperfield.. and christmas carol too.... but i like everything he wrote
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"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
I'd have to say Great Expectations. It's so frickin' hilarious. A Tale of Two Cities is second.
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I like Bleak House, Great Expectations and Little Dorrit the best. I feel they're all equally good, but I voted for Great Expectations as it was my first Dickens, and so has a special place for me.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
David Copperfield
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
Bleak House, followed closely by Nicholas Nickleby. I just finished Nicholas for perhaps the fourth time and enjoyed it more than ever. Pickwick is also a favorite.
The other day I was pondering a legal proceeding with which a friend is involved, and was struck with little Miss Flite, waiting for her judgement, surrounded by her birds named Joy, Hope, Faith, Despair, and others. Tears came to my eyes as I thought of her waiting forever, growing more and more insane but gently so. I am thankful that my friend's 'judgement will arrive soon' and sobered by the comparison.
I would say Pickwick Papers right now. I have about three novels of his left to read, but out of what I've read, Pickwick Papers is my favorite!
Love your blue-flying-bird !!!!! :O ooops! that was meant for 'Pensive'
BTW, I voted for Bleak House, although I enjoy David Copperfield & Great Expectations almost as much.
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david copperfield definetly, because of the characters. enjoyed every one of them
I'm torn between a few, Hard Times being one of them. Who'd've thought Dickens had written a novel about the grim north?
It's the only Dickens novel that doesn't include scenes set in London, as far as I can remember.Originally Posted by kelby_lake
I've just voted for Bleak House. I know out of context Ada and Esther are embarrassingly drippy in their own way, but in the context of the whole they work. It is all utterly grotesque and so much more convincing than worthy realism. (Mary Ann Evans, you know who I mean.)
Mrs Jellyaby, Harold Skimpole, Inspector Bucket, the cousin with her guitar, Mr George, the junk shop owner who goes up in smoke, Mr Guppy, Miss Flite, Granfather Smallweed, old Mr Turveydrop... all utterly individual, totally outrageous as studies in realism, and yet so, so true to life. More true than boring all realism can do.
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The more I read, the more I shall covet to read. Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Partion3, Section 1, Member 1, Subsection 1
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