Charles Dickens
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- Oliver Twist (Magill Book Reviews)
- Pickwick Papers (Magill Book Reviews)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Magill Book Reviews)
- Barnaby Rudge (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Bleak House (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- A Christmas Carol (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- David Copperfield (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Dombey and Son (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Our Mutual Friend (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Great Expectations (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Hard Times (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Little Dorrit (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Nicholas Nickleby (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Oliver Twist (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Pickwick Papers (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Detective Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- The Historical Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- The Picaresque Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Detective Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Supernatural Story (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1840 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Late Nineteenth Century: 1840-1880 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Nicholas Nickleby (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Hard Times (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Great Expectations (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- David Copperfield (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Little Dorrit (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Barnaby Rudge (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Our Mutual Friend (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Pickwick Papers (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Bleak House (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Dombey and Son (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Oliver Twist (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- A Christmas Carol (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- Author: Charles Dickens
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Although Charles Dickens did not gain his fame as a writer of mystery and detective fiction, he was unquestionably the nineteenth century master of the genre known as the “sensation novel,” a melodramatic fiction in which mystery, crime, villainy, and secret evil predominate. Moreover, Dickens made use of his knowledge of the newly created Metropolitan Police Force in England, focusing on the force’s detective procedures in several short works and in one of his most respected novels, Bleak House (1852-1853). His unfinished novel, The Mystery of...
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