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He never minded using a name to tell you about a character, like teacher Mr. M'choakumchild in "Hard Times" |
Dickens
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NOVELS & NOVELISTS |
2025-05-06 |
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In "Bleak House" this author used the word "swipes" for weak beer |
Dickens
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NOVEL VOCABULARY |
2012-04-12 |
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He wrote "Oliver Twist" against the background of the Poor Law of 1834, which ended the supplemental dole to the poor |
Dickens
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VICTORIAN NOVELISTS |
2010-01-21 |
#5839 |
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Swipes, a slang term for weak beer, appears in his novel "Bleak House" |
Charles Dickens
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NOVEL VOCABULARY |
2003-03-21 |
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"Mr. Wegg prepares a grindstone for Mr. Boffin's nose" is a chapter in his novel "Our Mutual Friend" |
Charles Dickens
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CLASSIC NOVELS |
1997-03-05 |
#2888 |
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His novel "Nicholas Nickleby" was first published in serial form in "Bentley's Miscellany" |
Charles Dickens
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NOVELS & NOVELISTS |
1997-02-07 |
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Popular in 1830s England, "gonof", a slang term for pickpocket, appears in his novel "Bleak House" |
Charles Dickens
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NOVEL VOCABULARY |
1996-11-20 |
#2813 |
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His novel "Oliver Twist" is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress" |
Charles Dickens
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NOVELS & NOVELISTS |
1994-09-05 |
#2296 |
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He serialized "The Old Curiosity Shop" in his own weekly magazine, "Master Humphrey's Clock" |
Charles Dickens
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BRITISH NOVELISTS |
1993-01-13 |
#1928 |
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His novel "Barnaby Rudge" contains vivid descriptions of the anti-Catholics riots of 1780 |
Charles Dickens
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NOVELS |
1990-01-04 |
#1234 |
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The actual title of his 1st novel is "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" |
Charles Dickens
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FIRST NOVELS |
1989-09-08 |
#1150 |