I’ve embarked on a project that should keep me occupied for a while. It’s my own celebration of this year’s Dickens biennial. I’ve started reading Peter Ackroyd’s biography, with the intention of breaking off at each point in the narrative where Dickens writes a novel – and reading (or re-reading) that work. I’ve just finished The Pickwick Papers which I first read as a teenager so I’m on my way, with close on 18 more novels to go. Thoughts on each book will be posted here.
– 1 May, 2012
- The Pickwick Papers
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Barnaby Rudge
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Christmas Books
- Dombey and Son
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- Hard Times
- Little Dorrit
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
- Our Mutual Friend
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