1852-53 1854 1855-57 1859 1860-61 1864-65 1870
Bleak House Hard Time Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cites Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend Edwin Dis a novel with imprisonment , both matterof-fact or symbolic, as its central theme , William Dorrit has lived more than 20 years in the Marshalsea Prison for debtors , and is called the “Father of the Marshalsea.”Little Dorrit is a rich and powerful novel Bernard Shaw called it “a more seditious book than Das Capital”
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In the basic plot, the fate of Dr.Manette is closely interwoven with the development of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities takes ,as clearly as Dickens’s earlier works , the sides of common people against that of the privileged classes.
“To be thoroughly earnest is everything, and to be anything short of it is nothing.”
(1812-1870)
3). The Third Period: showing intensifying
(increasing) pessimism
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After Bleak appeared the novel Hard Times ,a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics and on utilitarianism . The scene of Hard Times is laid in the North of England, in an industrial city called Coketown , about 1853.It also shows Dickens’s acute intuition that something more was in ferment in the antagonism between the bourgeoisie and the proletarait.
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The main butt of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuse of English courts .The plot is built the lawsuit of Jarndyce over the inheritance of a family fortune ,which has dragged on for mang generations , setting relatives quarreling with one another ,driving some of them to ruin and others to suicide ,while the lawyers engaged in it obtain large fees from the case.