Which is Charles Dickens' thirteenth published novel, its characters include: Uncle Pumblechook, Bentley Drummle, John Wemmick and Biddy?
"firstly that of ""foster parents"", Miss Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe, and secondly that of ""young people"", Estella, Pip and Biddy. There is a further organizing element that can be labelled ""Dangerous Lovers"", which includes Compeyson, Bentley Drummle and Orlick. Pip is the centre of this web of love, rejection and hatred. Dickens contrasts this ""dangerous love"" with the relationship of Biddy and Joe, which grows from friendship to marriage. This is ""the general frame of the novel"". The term ""love"" is generic, applying it to both Pip's true love for Estella and the feelings Estella has for Drummle, which are"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"Uncle Dynamite Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 October 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 29 November 1948 by Didier & Co., New York. It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in ""Uncle Fred in the Springtime"" (1939). Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again (Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad), and Reginald (""Pongo"") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew (and Drones Club member) has every right to"
"Uncle Fred Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, commonly known as Uncle Fred, is a fictional character who appears in short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse between 1935 and 1961. An energetic and mischievous old chap, his talent for trouble is the bane of his nephew Pongo Twistleton's life. The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short story and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle: Uncle Fred is a tall, slim, distinguished-looking man, with a jaunty moustache, and an ""alert and enterprising eye"". As a child he gambolled at Mitching Hill, his"
"1844 Alexandre Dumas, père published a novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (""Les Trois Mousquetaires"") and wrote ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" which was published in installments over the next two years. William Makepeace Thackeray published ""The Luck of Barry Lyndon"". In Britain Charles Dickens published several of his books in installments in magazines: ""The Pickwick Papers"", followed, in the next few years, by ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–1839), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (1838–1839), ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" (1840–1841), ""Barnaby Rudge"" (1841), ""A Christmas Carol"" (1843) and ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" (1843–1844). In America a version of the penny dreadful became popularly known as a ""dime novel"". In"
"dramatic reading of the short story which first introduces Lord Ickenham, ""Uncle Fred Flits By"". Uncle Fred Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, commonly known as Uncle Fred, is a fictional character who appears in short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse between 1935 and 1961. An energetic and mischievous old chap, his talent for trouble is the bane of his nephew Pongo Twistleton's life. The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short story and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle: Uncle Fred is a tall, slim, distinguished-looking man, with a jaunty moustache,"
"Linda and Johnny, under threat of a breach of promise suit. Connie is recalled to America by her husband, and the Duke returns home, leaving Emsworth once again master of his domain. Dunstable previously visited the castle in ""Uncle Fred in the Springtime"" (1939) and ""Service With a Smile"" (1962). A Pelican at Blandings A Pelican at Blandings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1969 by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 11 February 1970 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title ""No"
"for her. Angelica Briscoe would later appear in the Jeeves novel ""Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"" (1974). After the annual smoking-concert at the Drones Club, the members praise the knockabout cross-talk act (a comedic slapstick double act) performed by Cyril ""Barmy"" Fotheringay-Phipps and Reginald ""Pongo"" Twistleton-Twistleton. A Crumpet (a nondescript club member) remarks that Barmy and Pongo underwent an ordeal that nearly ended their friendship. The Crumpet, having heard about what happened from Barmy, narrates the following story. Barmy and Pongo go to the seaside resort Bridmouth-on-Sea to practice their cross-talk act. They see Angelica Briscoe, daughter of the Rev. P. P."
"to Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick and company. In chapter four of ""Cordelia Underwood"", Cordelia finds a copy of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in her uncle's trunk. Author Van Reid says that the names of the characters Ephram, Eagleton and Thump were chosen to evoke the sound of a heavy object falling downstairs. The name Tobias was consciously borrowed from the character of Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne’s ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman""; Walton from Izaak Walton, author of ""The Compleat Angler"". Ephram, Eagleton, and Thump adhere to different political parties, go to separate churches, subscribe to different newspapers,"
"young woman living in the 1850s (""Boston Jane: An Adventure"", ""Boston Jane: Wilderness Days"" and ""Boston Jane: The Claim""); ""The Creek,"" a horror thriller; ""Babymouse"" and ""Squish"", series of graphic novels for children illustrated by her brother Matthew; and ""The Stink Files"", a series co-written with her husband Jonathan Hamel featuring James Edward Bristlefur, a cat raised by a British secret agent who is adopted by an American family and renamed Mr. Stink after his owner is murdered. ""Penny from Heaven,"" a story set in the 1950s featuring an 11-year-old Italian-American girl, was a 2007 Newbery Honor recipient. ""Turtle in"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"
"Trunnion's lifestyle may have inspired Charles Dickens to create the character of Wemmick in ""Great Expectations"". Another interesting character is Peregrine's friend Cadwallader Crabtree, an old misanthrope who amuses himself by playing ingenious jokes on naive people. Smollett also caricatured many of his enemies in the novel, most notably Henry Fielding and the actor David Garrick. Fitzroy Henry Lee was supposedly the model for Hawser Trunnion. George Orwell, writing in the ""Tribune"" in 1944, said regarding the novels ""Roderick Random"" and ""Peregrine Pickle"": The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish"
"later described by Cecil Day-Lewis, author of gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways, as an ""unspeakable public school bully"". The novel ""Bulldog Drummond"" begins when Drummond places an advertisement in a newspaper looking for adventure to lift the ennui of his life in post-war London. The response comes from Phyllis Benton, who is concerned for the health and well-being of her father, over whom Henry Lakington and Carl Peterson have a hold. At the end of the novel Drummond and Phyllis marry, and remain married throughout the course of the McNeile and Fairlie series of books, in contrast to the films, which"
"Great Expectations Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after ""David Copperfield"", to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical ""All the Year Round"", from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of"
"promptly got together with Sally Painter. He is a close friend of Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, and the two always perform a ""cross-talk"" act written by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright at the annual Drones smoker event. Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels ""Uncle Fred in the Springtime"", ""Uncle Dynamite"", ""Cocktail Time"", and ""Service With a Smile"" as well as in the short stories ""Uncle Fred Flits By"" and ""Tried in the Furnace"". Pongo Twistleton Reginald ""Pongo"" Twistleton is a character in the Uncle Fred books by P. G. Wodehouse. A member of the Drones Club in London, he's a nervous young man described by"
"comes to pay him a visit, revealing a long-kept family secret. Tony departs for London with the resourceful Polly Brown, leaving the ancestral home in the hands of the Socialist barber Syd Price. The Honourable Freddie Chalk-Marshall, the monocle-wearing younger brother of Lord Droitwich, is a member of the Drones Club. If I Were You (Wodehouse novel) If I Were You is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on September 3, 1931 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, and in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1931 by Herbert Jenkins, London. Prior to its publication in"
"The Quincunx The Quincunx (The Inheritance of John Huffam) is the epic first novel of Charles Palliser. It takes the form of a Dickensian mystery set in early 19th century England, but Palliser has added the modern attributes of an ambiguous plot and unreliable narrators. Many of the puzzles that are apparently solved in the story have an alternative solution in the subtext. The novel begins in London with a secret meeting between two legal men. A bribe reveals the confidential details of a correspondent who is the link to a vital hidden document. Meanwhile, young John Mellamphy is growing"
"supporting characters: Sturdley the Bookworm, Esmerelda (portrayed by a Raggedy Ann doll), Ketchikan the Animal Man (a sort of Jack Hanna character), Boris S. Wort (the ""second meanest man in the world""), LeRoy Frump (a character obviously based on Art Carney's Ed Norton), Tikey Turkey (a rubber chicken), Grandpa Tick Tock (a grandfather clock with an elderly face where the pendulum would be), The Swami of Pastrami, Ggoorrsstt the Friendly Frpl (a one-eyed brown shag carpet), Miss Smith (a motorcycle riding delivery woman who told mostly awful jokes), Superclown (a JP like superhero), J.P.'s evil counterpart P. J. Scratches (per"
"of discipline oppressed individuals on a broad societal scale, encouraging them to censor aspects of themselves and their actions. The novel also criticizes the emasculation of men in society, particularly in the character of Billy Bibbit, the stuttering Acute patient who is domineered by both Nurse Ratched and his mother. The title of the book is a line from a nursery rhyme: <poem style=""margin-left:2em;""> Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn, Wire, briar, limber lock Three geese in a flock One flew East One flew West And one flew over the cuckoo's nest </poem> Chief Bromden's grandmother sang"
"Uncle Fred Flits By ""Uncle Fred Flits By"" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, which was published in the United States in the July 1935 edition of ""Redbook"", and in the United Kingdom in the December 1935 issue of the ""Strand"". It was included in the collection ""Young Men in Spats"" (1936). The story is part of the main Drones Club canon. It features club member Pongo Twistleton and his mischievous Uncle Fred. Pongo and Uncle Fred would go on to appear in four novels, including making two visits to Blandings Castle. In the story,"
"elements. Despite its non-canonical plot, it received good reviews. The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in ""The Strand Magazine"" from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his"
"East End Literature East End Literature comprises novels, short stories, plays, poetry and non-fictional writings set in the East End of London. Crime, poverty, vice, sexual transgression, drugs, class-conflict and multi-cultural encounters and fantasies involving Jews, Chinamen (and women) and Indian immigrants are major themes. Among the first and most prominent authors to depict the East End in fiction was Charles Dickens (1812–70). His godfather had a sail making business in Limehouse, and he based the ""Six Jolly Fellowship Porters"" in ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65) on a public house still standing there. The Red Bull, a now demolished inn situated"
"Jack Sheppard (novel) Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in ""Bentley's Miscellany"" from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard. ""Jack Sheppard"" was serially published in ""Bentley's Miscellany"" from January 1839 until February 1840. The novel was intertwined with the history of Charles Dickens's ""Oliver Twist"", which ran in the same publication from February 1837 to April 1839. Dickens, previously a friend of Ainsworth's, became distant from Ainsworth as a controversy brewed over the"
"so he asked one of his favorite young writers, the novelist Charles Dickens, then twenty-five years old, to re-edit and re-write it. At first Dickens was not inclined to take the job, and he wrote to Bentley in October 1837: I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I cannot take it up on any conditions to which you would be disposed to accede. I should require to be assured three hundred pounds in the first instance without any reference to the sale"
"Betty"" (1869). ""Minstrel Dick"" (1896) is set mainly in the 14th-century Berkhamstead court of the dying Edward, the Black Prince. Her fiction expressed her concern with morality, and several of her books were published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. She was a friend of Charlotte Yonge's, distantly related to her through Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, who, like Christabel, had been one of Yonge's informal society known as the Goslings. They collaborated on several writing projects, such as ""The Miz Maze or The Winkworth Puzzle: A story in letters, by nine authors."" (1883). Christabel Coleridge co-edited ""The Monthly Packet"" with"
"John Constable, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Martin (""Landscape with a Castle""), J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Ford Madox Brown, James McNeill Whistler ("")"". ""The Canterbury Tales"" and the novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (Pamela Andrews, Mr B), ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (Jack Hatchway, Commodore Trunnion), ""Tristram Shandy"", ""A Sentimental Journey"" (Parson Yorick), ""The Mill on the Floss"", ""Wuthering Heights"" (Catherine Earnshaw).<br> 16. A long poem in the style of William Blake, celebrating English poetry from Cædmon to Ernest Dowson.<br> 18. ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" (Fisher King, Merlin). T.S. Eliot Reaction to the novel was largely negative. Many critics found Ackroyd's"
"wealthy, well-connected Huffam to act as godfather to Charles. This same Huffam family appeared later in Charles Palliser's 1989 ""The Quincunx"", a homage to the Dickensian novel form. As with most of Dickens' work, a number of socially significant themes are to be found in this book. In particular the book deals with the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain. Other themes to be detected within this work include child cruelty (particularly in Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, and as ever in Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof. Another strong central theme, which the"
"in Thomas Pynchon's novel ""Mason and Dixon""; typically, given the themes of mythology and historiography within the novel, Pynchon alters some details of the legend (for instance, moving to Transylvania the location of the ""wise woman"" who gives advice given to John Lambton on how to defeat the worm). A version of the tale was published by Joseph Jacobs, using William Henderson's text in ""Folk-Lore of Northern Counties"" as a source. ""Jabberwocky"" may have been partly inspired by the legend of the Lambton Worm. Willam Mayne's children's novel The Worm in the Well, published in 2002, is an adapted retelling"
"appeared in Puffin Books in 1963. This is the story of the Ruggles siblings Kate, Peg and Jo - three of the seven children of Mr Ruggles the dustman and Mrs Ruggles the washerwoman - who go on holiday to the Dew Drop Inn (located in the imaginary village of Upper Cassington) while they convalescence from the measles. Garnett subsequently wrote a final book in the series, ""Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn"", which details Kate's return visit to Upper Cassington alone the following summer, with the setting remaining as the late 1930s. This was first published by Heinemann in"
"them. She represents an amoral, sophisticated London, and the conflict between her and the conservative rural community where she is reporting has wider resonance in terms of social history. This character, however, does not appear in the book. Brendon Chase Brendon Chase is a children's novel by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writing as 'BB'. It was published in 1944 but is set at an earlier date. The novel is about three boys living wild in an English forest. It was later made into a 13-part TV serial and shown on ITV from 31 December 1980 to 25 March 1981. The series was"
"be linked to this genre include the aristocratic Bentley Drummle, because of his extreme cruelty, Pip himself, who spends his youth chasing a frozen beauty, the monstrous Orlick, who systematically attempts to murder his employers. Then there is the fight to the death between Compeyson and Magwitch, and the fire that ends up killing Miss Havisham, scenes that are dominated by horror, suspense, and the sensational, such as are found in gothic novels. Elements of the silver fork novel are found in the character of Miss Havisham and her world, as well as Pip's illusions. This genre, which flourished in"
"Hamlet Had an Uncle Hamlet Had an Uncle: A Comedy of Honor is a novel by James Branch Cabell, published in 1940. It is the second book of his trilogy ""Heirs and Assigns"". Cabell had incubated a 'true version' of the Hamlet story for decades, and based his tale on Saxo Grammaticus, whose epic saga recounts the story of the historical Hamlet, Prince of Jutland, his murder of his father Horvendill, and his rivalry with Wiglek, the Prince of Denmark. ""Kirkus Reviews"" declared it to be ""slightly salacious"" and ""highly specialized nature, for those who like this eclectic type of"
"and remunerative reading tours. His domestic life had, however, disintegrated in the late 1850s and he had separated from his wife, Catherine Dickens, and was having a secret affair with the much younger Ellen Ternan. The introduction of the 1984 Penguin English Library edition suggests that the reluctance with which Ellen Ternan became his mistress is reflected in the icy teasing of Estella in ""Great Expectations"". In his ""Book of Memoranda"", begun in 1855, Dickens wrote names for possible characters: Magwitch, Provis, Clarriker, Compey, Pumblechook, Orlick, Gargery, Wopsle, Skiffins, some of which became familiar in ""Great Expectations"". There is also"