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Charles Dickens’ early novels. «The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club». 
  
     
 
  
 
    
 

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David Copperfield
 
There is no answering the question whether this rich and copious writer is at his best early or late, in parts or 
wholes, in comedy or drama. Only a few dishes can be sampled here. His most delightful book may be 
David 
Copperfield, 
a lucid autobiographical fairy tale. By a trick of narration we fully share the viewpoints both of 
the child and of the adult looking back. We experience Steerforth’s seductiveness to David, and see the 
casual rapacity behind it. We see with Dickens’s smile and Dickens’s pity the child-bride Dora offering to 
help David by holding his pens. The career of Steerforth, however, tests our ability to feel as Dickens wishes 
after the ruin of Little Emily. Interest weakens. The first writing in which everything tells is the brief 
A 
Christmas Carol. 
After the elaborate 
Dombey and Son 
(1006 pages), the novels are designed and have 
thematic ambition. Academic opinion admires the three huge novels, 
Bleak House, Little Dorrit 
and 
Our 
Mutual Friend
, 1000-pagers more serious and complex than those which had made his name. Post
Dombey 
Dickens certainly repays re-reading, if there is time. The comic conjurer retires, the tragic artist advances. 
Stakes are raised, there is loss and gain. 
 
What books belong to Dickens’s first period of literary work? 
What books were written by Dickens between the years 1842-1848? 
       When was Dickens’s “Hard Times” written and what was described   in it?