Selected Short Fiction

Fiction

Author: Charles Dickens

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins an….Read More

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The American Boy

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Hard Times

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Barnaby Rudge

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Nicholas Nickleby

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