{"product_id":"2940014453653","title":"The Ultimate Charles Dickens Quicklet Bundle","description":"This is a discounted bundle featuring 5 of Hyperink's most popular books on Charles Dickens, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Quicklet on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol\u003cbr\u003e-Quicklet on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist\u003cbr\u003e-Quicklet on Charles Dickens' David Copperfield\u003cbr\u003e-Quicklet on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities\u003cbr\u003e-Biography of Charles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelow are some selected excerpts. Buy them together and save over 50% off the combined price!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e= = = = =\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Quicklet on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens is one of the most prominent English authors of all time, particularly known as the greatest author of the Victorian period in England. His works were popular during his lifetime, and remain popular today. Dickens is responsible for some of the most famous and iconic characters in English literature. He novels include the classics A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twists, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, and Nicholas Nickleby among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis work was highly realistic in that it portrayed ugly truths about Victorian England, exposing the grisly underbelly of society. He wrote about working-class people and their lives, including the miserable conditions of the poor; in doing so, he created some of the most memorable and beloved characters in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e= = = = =\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Oliver Twist’ was a departure from the world that Dickens created when he wrote ‘The Pickwick Papers’, according to David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Home Page. Unlike other Victorian writers at the time, Dickens exposed the seamy side of England by writing about prostitutes and criminals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacters such as John Dawkins a.k.a. The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Charley Bates and Nancy shocked readers. In fact, Nancy’s murder has been a source of contention for scholars and critics who felt like the scene was over-the-top, according to The Guardian. It was later discovered that Dickens used a real life account of a prostitutes murder to write the scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause of his early childhood experience at the workhouse, Dickens is able to paint a vivid picture in ‘Oliver Twist’ of the lower class and their grim conditions. In this world, every class has their own bad apples. The poor and middle class are not automatically dishonest and opportunistic. Those in power such as the Mr. Bumble and Monks are just as ruthless as Fagin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e= = = = =\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Charles Dickens' David Copperfield:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the summer after my second year of college, I despised Charles Dickens. I couldn’t stomach his outdated witticisms and had no patience for his Gothic writing style. In high school, when my AP English teacher assigned A Tale of Two Cities, I read Chapters 1-10 and gave up. I could stand to fail an English test since it was my best subject. I couldn’t stand to spend one more second trudging through the doldrums of Charles Darnay’s self-righteousness and Sydney Carton’s unrequited sob-fest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverything changed when I signed up for an annual week-long educational program called “Dickens Universe”. I was a literature major at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the completion of Dickens Universe, part of UCSC’s world-renowned Dickens Project, meant I’d receive a full quarter’s course credits in just one week. The incentive was greater than my distaste for Dickens, so I enrolled and bought a copy of that year’s featured novel: David Copperfield.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy preconceptions about Charles Dickens began to melt away within minutes of my arrival on the first day. Dickens experts from 35 of the world’s top universities gathered beneath the redwood groves of the UCSC campus for lectures, study groups, and Victorian-style tea each day.","brand":"Hyperink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080115503344,"sku":"2940014453653","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014453653_p0.jpg?v=1763608775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014453653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}