Re-reading Dickens

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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• Charles Dickens: a bicentennial fanfare
• In Dickens’ footsteps (1): Doughty Street
• In Dickens’ footsteps (2): Dickens and London exhibition
• In Dickens footsteps (3): a walk through the City
• Dickens sees through the fog
• Dickens: Smiley’s person