Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Charles Dickens was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serial form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In "The Battle of Life: A Love Story", two sisters live with their father near the site of a historic battle. The betrothed of the younger sister left disconsolate when she disappears with a suitor, marries the older sister. Six years later, the younger sister reappears with a shocking explanation. This is the fourth of the famous Christmas books of Charles Dickens that begins with "A Christmas Carol."
4) Bleak House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections: between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.