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First publish date: 1952
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Edgar Johnson
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📘 A Tale of Two Cities
 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’ landmark historical novel, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution, follows Doctor Manette’s 18‑year imprisonment, his release, and his reunion with daughter Lucie amid looming terror.

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📘 Great Expectations
 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’ classic bildungsroman follows an orphan named Pip as he grows from humble beginnings in Kent to London society, encountering wealth, poverty, love, and moral triumph.

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📘 Oliver Twist
 by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

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📘 Hard Times
 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s classic critique of Victorian industrial society, “Hard Times” follows schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind as he confronts the limits of utilitarian philosophy and the power of imagination.

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📘 Bleak House
 by Charles Dickens

In Dickens’s sweeping novel, the protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in the Court of Chancery pulls together a disparate cast— from heirs torn by legal costs to a mysterious ward, a cunning lawyer, and a destitute street sweeper— exposing London’s social decay.

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📘 David Copperfield
 by Charles Dickens

A coming‑of‑age narrative set in 19th‑century England, following young David Copperfield as he navigates orphanhood, hardship and society’s social hierarchies.

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📘 Our Mutual Friend
 by Charles Dickens

A satiric masterpiece by Charles Dickens, *Our Mutual Friend* explores the themes of money, poverty, and social change in 19th-century London.

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📘 Little Dorrit
 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit follows William Dorrit, jailed for debt, and his daughter Amy—or Little Dorrit—through their rise from poverty to wealth amid 19th‑century London life.

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📘 Pictures from Italy
 by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens offers a vivid, first‑hand account of Italy from his travels in 1845, blending observation with travel notes and insights into Italian customs and scenery.

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📘 Giving Up the Ghost
 by Hilary Mantel

In this candid memoir, Hilary Mantel reflects on her upbringing, family dynamics and struggles with illness, tracing how early loss and chronic pain shaped her life and literary career.

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📘 Radclyffe Hall
 by Sally Cline


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📘 The life of Charles Dickens
 by John Forster

John Forster’s biography traces Charles Dickens’ journey from a humble childhood to becoming England’s celebrated novelist, detailing his renowned works such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.

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📘 George Eliot
 by Jennifer S. Uglow


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📘 Beatrix Potter
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Linda Lear’s biography reveals the extraordinary life of Beatrix Potter, celebrated artist, illustrator, author, businesswoman, scientist, and Lakeland landowner.

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