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Dickens Novels
YGK These Charles Dickens Novels
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The 1837 novel in which Samuel Pickwick and his club members travel provincial England and employ the Cockney valet Sam Weller | The Pickwick Papers |
| The humorous sayings Sam Weller is known for, such as "out with it, as the father said to his child, when he swallowed a farthing" | Wellerisms |
| The novel in which the orphan Oliver asks the beadle Mr. Bumble for "more food" | Oliver Twist |
| The kind gentleman who temporarily rescues Oliver Twist and eventually adopts him | Mr. Brownlow |
| The novel where Nicholas Nickleby works at Dotheboys Hall for the cruel headmaster Wackford Squeers | Nicholas Nickleby |
| The "foppish" character whose attentions pester Nicholas Nickleby's sister Kate | Mr. Mantalini (or Sir Mulberry Hawk) |
| The novel about a gambling addict grandfather, his granddaughter Nell Trent ("Little Nell"), and the dwarf Daniel Quilp | The Old Curiosity Shop |
| The Christmas story in which the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley | A Christmas Carol |
| The three spirits who visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve | Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come |
| The autobiographical novel that was Dickens's favorite of his own books | David Copperfield |
| The "humble" clerk whose schemes are foiled by David Copperfield and Mr. Micawber | Uriah Heep |
| The novel revolving around the never-ending Chancery case Jarndyce and Jarndyce | Bleak House |
| The only female narrator used by Dickens in his major novels, found in Bleak House | Esther Summerson |
| The character in Bleak House who dies of spontaneous human combustion | Krook (the merchant) |
| The utilitarian, fact-obsessed superintendent of a school in Coketown, England | Thomas Gradgrind (Hard Times) |
| The politician in Hard Times who unsuccessfully tries to seduce Thomas Gradgrind’s daughter Louisa | James Harthouse |
| The novel famously beginning "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," set in Paris and London | A Tale of Two Cities |
| The French doctor imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years for exposing the crimes of the Evrémonde family | Alexandre Manette |
| The character who takes Charles Darnay's place at the guillotine, thinking "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." | Sidney Carton |
| The narrator of the novel, whose "expectations" of becoming a gentleman are funded by a secret benefactor | Pip (or Philip Pirrip) |
| The kind blacksmith and husband of Pip’s sister who helps raise him | Joe Gargery |
| The mysterious benefactor who provides the funds for Pip's education in London | Abel Magwitch |
| The lawyer who informs Pip of his "great expectations" and manages his affairs | Mr. Jaggers |
| Pip’s friend who helps him attempt to smuggle Magwitch out of England | Herbert Pocket (or Startop) |
| The cruel man who marries Estella and mistreats her | Bentley Drummle |
| The man whose betrayal led to Miss Havisham's life of seclusion and who later foils Magwitch's escape | Compeyson |
| The author who convinced Dickens to change the novel's ending to a more hopeful reunion between Pip and Estella | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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