Tag: Charles Dickens
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OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens | Review
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is one of those classic stories that everyone thinks they know– that is, until they actually sit down to read the novel in its entirety. Prior to starting this book in the middle of a flight from England back to the States, I thought this would be the simple story of…
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2017 Resolutions: How did I do?
Last January I made this list of my top ten bookish resolutions for 2017… and now the time has come to see how I did! I’ve completely forgotten what my resolutions were, so this should be an interesting trip down memory lane. 1. Read 24 books. Done! Somehow the stars aligned this year and I actually…
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A Classic Couple: GREAT EXPECTATIONS and A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY
In a past Top Ten Tuesday post I paired Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations with the more contemporary novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Many people expressed interest in hearing more about the connection I see between these two works of literature even though they seem very different at a first…
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HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is the first book I was assigned to read over the summer to prepare for the English Literature 1830-1910 tutorial I’ll be taking during my first term at Oxford. I was thrilled when I saw this title on the list because I’ve been meaning to read more by Dickens since…
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JULY 2017 | Wrap-Up
July was a blur of hot days, air-conditioned office spaces, lakeside reading, and time spent with friends and family… not a bad way to spend the bulk of summer! Here’s what I was up to this past month: In July I read a total of 9 books: Hard Times by Charles Dickens North and South by Elizabeth…
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The Reading List // Classics Club Challenge
Hi, everyone! Today’s post is a very special TBR list, as I have decided to join the Classics Club Reading Challenge! You can read more about the specifics of this challenge here, but basically it means that you make a list of classics you’d like to read by a certain date. Each time you read…
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Book Review: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Author: Charles Dickens Number of Pages: 554 Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: 1861 “Great Expectations, Dickens’ funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip’s journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man’s life is transformed by a mysterious series of events – an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a…
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QUOTE: Charles Dickens
“All of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.” ~ A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens This classic novel is overflowing with brilliant quotes such as this one. I definitely agree with Dickens- certain situations certainly bring out different aspects of people. What quotes have you discovered…
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Book Review: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Author: Charles Dickens Number of Pages: 480 Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1859 “After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer,…
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