Charles Dickens

[close] Our goal is to foster live voice storytelling in online bookclubs where readers can join in from their devices and participate in chapter-by-chapter group reading and discussions of their favourite classics/books. Readers will be able to sync the chapter page they are reading on their devices to facilitate discussions. We want to meet online booklovers who are interested in discussing classics like The Great Gatsby, The Time Machine, A Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and so on. We will be group reading a book online where people can participate in voice discussions while the story is being read chapter-by-chapter, as everyone sees and hears the pages being read.

[close] Dickens’ novels were first written in monthly or weekly installments in journals such as Master Humphrey’s Clock and Household Words, later reprinted in book form. These installments made the stories cheap, accessible and the series of regular cliff-hangers made each new episode widely anticipated. American fans even waited at the docks in New York, shouting out to the crew of an incoming ship, “Is little Nell dead?” Part of Dickens’s great talent was to incorporate this episodic writing style but still end up with a coherent novel at the end.

[close] This is a private group, invitation only (by any member) to read, enjoy, and discuss works by Charles Dickens.

[close] This is for everyone who loves Charles Dickens. For all who want to read or have read his books. You can add anything and everything related to Dickens About Charles Dickens: A prolific 19th Century author of short stories, plays, novellas, novels, fiction and non-fiction; during his lifetime Dickens became known the world over for his remarkable characters, his mastery of prose in the telling of their lives, and his depictions of the social classes, morals and values of his times. Some considered him the spokesman for the poor, for he definitely brought much awareness to their plight, the downtrodden and the have-nots. He had his share of critics, like Virginia Woolf and Henry James, but also many admirers, even into the 21st Century.