Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical fagin, the menancing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.
Bleak House adalah salah satu pencapaian terbaik Dickens, membangun reputasinya sebagai novelis yang serius dan dewasa, serta penulis komik yang brilian. Ini sekaligus merupakan kisah misteri kompleks yang sepenuhnya melibatkan pembaca dalam pekerjaan deteksi, dan dakwaan yang tak terlupakan dari masyarakat yang acuh tak acuh. Representasinya tentang kota besar dunia bawah, dan tentang korupsi …
Great Expectations adalah novel ketigabelas karya penulis Inggris Charles Dickens dan novel terakhirnya yang telah selesai. Novel tersebut merupakan bildungsroman dan menggambarkan pendidikan seorang anak yatim piatu yang dijuluki Pip. Ini adalah novel kedua Dickens, setelah David Copperfield, yang dinarasikan sepenuhnya sebagai orang pertama.[N 1] Novel ini pertama kali diterbitkan sebagai ser…
Murdering the Innocent! Facts, Facts, Facts. Teach these children facts, not fancies. Sense, not Sentimentality. Comformity, not curiosity. Proof and demonstration, not poetry and drama... On this bleak tenet is run the Gradgrind model day school in Hard Times.
Bleak House is considered by many leading critics to be one of Dicken's finest achievements, ensuring his reputation as a serious and mature novelist as well as a consummate entertainer. It is a story of love and inheritance, and its graphic depiction of the realities and costs of HIgh Court legal actions - drawn from the author's personal knowledge and experience - have direct relevance to ou…
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding'…
In Hard Times, says George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens means to show us "that it is not our disorder but our order that is horrible; that it is not our criminals but our magnates that are robbing and murdering us ..."
Dikisahkan terdapat seorang anak kecil bernama Oliver Twist yang lahir di sebuah rumah penampungan di kawasan penduduk miskin di Kota London. Ibunya yang tanpa identitas ditemukan pingsan di pinggir jalan dan kemudian meninggal ketika melahirkan Oliver. Menghabiskan 9 tahun masa kanak-kanaknya dengan hidup di sebuah penampungan yang kekurangan makanan dan perlakuan yang tidak mengenakkan membua…
"Little Dorrit" stands in Dickens's life chiefly as a signal of how far he went down the road of realism, of sadness and of what is called modernity