Difficult Journey -- A Guide to Dickens' Works

Author: Zhou Lesi
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: The reason why Charles Dickens's novels have captivated readers across generations is directly related to their close connection with the public. His first novel, and also his breakthrough work, The Pickwick Papers, adopts a theme that is familiar to the masses—the traditional "picaresque novel." Dickens's subsequent novels largely followed this traditional theme as well. The Old Curiosity Shop is another style of "picaresque novel," while David Copperfield and Great Expectations are "coming-of-age novels," and Our Mutual Friend is a "."