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Battling with Life

(people at odds with the society around them)

James Baldwin, Go, Tell It on the Mountain

T. Coraghessan Boyle , The Tortilla Curtain

Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Maxim Gorky, Foma Gordeev

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Emile Zola, Nana

See also: EMOTIONALLY ILL-AT-EASE    PERPLEXED BY LIFE    REVISITING ONE'S PAST   

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DICKENS, Charles

British novelist (1812-1870)

In his early 20s Dickens worked as a journalist, writing reports of law court proceedings and Parliamentary debates, and short essays on the life and manners of the time (later collected as Sketches by Boz). It was not until the success of his first novel Pickwick Papers, when he was 25, that he made writing a full-time career. He composed large parts of his novels in dialogue, and was proud of his gift for showing character through speech alone; he also gave his minor characters (pot-boys, shop-customers, carters, oystermen, toddlers) turns of speech or physical eccentricities to make them instantly memorable -- another theatrical technique. This character-vividness is matched by a sustained commentary on human nature and society: Dickens consistently savaged the humbug and petty-mindedness of the middle classes who bought his books, and said that human happiness comes not from law, religion, politics or social structures but from gratuitous, individual acts of kindness. In his later books, notably Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, savagery predominated over sentimentality to an extent rivalled only in Zola.

DAVID COPPERFIELD  (1849) Dickens' own favourite among his novels, this tells the story (in the first person, as if an autobiography) of a boy growing up: his unhappy childhood and adolescence, his first jobs and first loveaffair, and the way he finally transmutes his experience into fiction and becomes a writer. As often in Dickens' books, subsidiary characters seem to steal the show: the grim Murdstones, the optimistic Micawbers, salt-of-the-earth Peggotty, feckless Steerforth and above all the viperish hypocrite Uriah Heep. But the book's chief interest is the developing character of Copperfield himself. Apparently passive, at other people's mercy, he learns and grows by each experience, maturing before our eyes.

Dickens' novels, in order of publication, are Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and Edwin Drood. His shorter works include A Christmas Carol, A Child's History of England and three collections of articles, Sketches by Boz, American Notes and The Uncommercial Traveller.

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Nicholas Nickleby

Oliver Twist

To David Copperfield : see also pathway

Novels of 'growing up', using a biographical framework to give a picture (documentary, satirical or both at once) of society : Henry Fielding, Tom Jones James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

To Dickens' more savage social novels : Mrs Gaskell, North and South John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot

To his more relaxed tableaux of human life : H.G. Wells, Kipps Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis Tobias Smollett , The Adventures of Roderick Random George Gissing, The Nether World

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All the World's a Stage

(books about theatre)

John Arden, Books of Bale

Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure

Richard Bissell, Say, Darling

Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, A Bullet in the Ballet

Angela Carter, Wise Children

Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

Bamber Gascoigne, The Heyday

H.R.F. Keating, Death of a Fat God

Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker

Noel Langley, There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us

J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions

Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo

Barry Unsworth, Morality Play

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The Playmaker

Thomas Keneally, The Playmaker

(1780s English officer guides convicts in Australia through production of a Restoration comedy)

Australian Life (the funny side)

Rodney Hall, Kisses of the Enemy

Peter Carey, Illywacker

Howard Jacobson, Redback

Elizabeth Jolley, The Funny Side

Convicts (prison as living Hell)

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit  (19th-century England: corrupting effects of money, and life in the Marshalsea Debtors" Prison)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  (20th-century USSR: unsparing account of life in labour-camp for dissidents)

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables  (19th-century France honest man wrongly convicted to the galleys tries to rehabilitate himself)

John Cheever, Falconer  (20th-century USA: life in "correctional facility" as experienced by mentally unstable, middle-class wife-murderer)

Faction (novels embroidering real events)

John Fowles, A Maggot  (witchcraft, murder and possible UFOs in18th-century England)

Tony Weeks-Pearson, Dodo  (extermination of dodo brings culture-shock to native inhabitants of idyllic Pacific island)

Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal  (plot to assassinate General de Gaulle of France)

E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel  (lives of children of US immigrants executed for espionage)

Martin Cruz Smith, Stallion Gate  (Mexican magic versus development of first atomic bomb)

Frontiers of Civilisation

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter  (religious hysteria and persecution in Puritan New England)

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart  (Nigerian tribal life, the rhythms of civilisation, disrupted by coming of white missionaries)

Brian Moore, Black Robe  (Jesuit priest in 17th-century Huron Indian country: irreconcilable culture-clash)

Plays and Plays-Actors ("luvvies" is not the word)

Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost  (amateurs in 1950s Canadian university town)

Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts  (thoughts and feelings of everyone involved in village historical pageant)

Noel Langley, There"s a Porpoise Close Behind Us  (sour success of "bright young things" on 1930s London stage)

Paul Bailey, Peter Smart"s Confessions  (testimony of unsuccessful, mentally unstable actor)

The Australian Past (Aboriginal culture and the pain brought, and felt, by whites)

Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves  (shipwrecked 1910s woman learns survival by assimilating Aborigine culture)

William Golding, Close Quarters  (life on 1790s convict-ship sailing from England to Australia)

Bruce Chatwin, The Song Lines  (writer travels modern Australia, investigating Aboriginal sacred places)

Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land  (first white settlers in Australia)

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War and Peace

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, War and Peace

(tapestry of Russian life during the Napoleonic Wars)

All Human Life is Here (unpicking the detail of society)

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (small-town life on Mississippi before American Civil War)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister  (young man travels 18th-century Europe, learning about life and love)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote  (fantasy knight-errantry in Renaissance Spain)

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair  (middle- and upper-class life in Napoleonic England)

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield  (English city society in the 1830s)

Stendhal, Scarlet and Black  (middle- and upper-class life in Napoleonic France)

Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars

Anthony Burgess, The Napoleon Symphony

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe"s Regiment

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

C.S. Forester, The Gun

Tsarist Russia

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Dead Souls  (conman tours rural estates, buying up dead serfs" "souls")

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons  (landed class resist fashionable revolutionary ideas, 1860s)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot  (psychological disintegration of count dismissed by family as simpleton)

Maxim Gorky, Foma Gordeev  (brutal upbringing in barge-owning family on 19th-century Volga)

War and its Aftermath

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms  (love-affair overshadowed by World War I)

Olivia Manning, Fortunes of War  (World War II: effects on civilians in Balkans and Egypt)

William Styron, Sophie"s Choice  (US woman haunted by memoty of nazi concentration camps)

Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills  (Japanese woman coping with memories of Hiroshima)

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago  (tragic love in chaos of Russian revolution)

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David Copperfield

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

(dark childhood, miserable growing-up and eventual happiness in 19th-century London)

"Dickensian" Novels: Bleak Side of Life (the battle for existence fought - and lost)

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables  (1820s France: honest man convicted to gallets escapes and rebuilds his life)

Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset  (1860s England: honest man wrongly accused of theft; student making his way in London)

Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth  (1880s New York heiress rejects ways of society to "be herself")

James Baldwin, Go, Tell It on the Mountain  (1950s Harlem: son of slum family learns about sex, racism and born-again Christian love)

John O"Hara, The Lockwood Concern  (1930s Pennsylvania family becomes wealthy by violence, destroys itself)

J.B. Priestley, Angel Pavement  (1920s London firm taken over, developed and ruined by confidence-trickster)

"Dickensian" Novels: Cheerful Side of Life (life maybe a struggle, but it can still be fun)

David Cook, Sunrising  (1830s England: three children rescued from degradation in rural and urban slums)

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  (1860s Mississippi: boy"s adolescence on river and in riverside communities)

H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly  (1890s England: middle-aged "drop-out" has many adventures, finds happiness)

Thomas Mann, The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man  (1900s Europe: confidence-man"s cheerful, amoral adventures among the bourgeoisie)

Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot  (1950s widow travels world I search of happiness)

Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March  (1930s Chicago: zestful account of slum boy using his wits to make his way)

Learning How to Be Grown-up (adolescence as a quest, with adulthood as the glittering prize)

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage  (1890s London school days, Paris student life and eventual happiness of lonely young man)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Apprenticeship of Wilhelm Meister  (1790s Europe: young man runs away to be an actor, esperiences real life, "finds" himself)

André Gide, The Counterfeiters  (1920s Paris: young people growing up, initiated into life and love)

Lisa Alther, Kinflicks  (1960s USA: young woman learns about sex, love, feminism, protest-politics and "dropping out")

Mordechai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz  (1930s Montreal: young man moves from rags to riches, loses his soul)

William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis  (1840s London: after many escapades, young man finds literary success)

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