What is best dickens novel
Five Favorite Dickens
hi I'm Kaylee and today I'm going to
tell you my 5 favorite Dickens novels in
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that it has been my goal for quite some
time well you know for a couple of
decades to finish reading all of Dickens
and I finally finished it just a couple
of weeks ago I finally accomplished that
goal and oh my goodness it feels so good
so of course now that I have read all of
Dickens I can sit down and say these are
my five favorite so I'm gonna start off
with an honorable mention that did not
quite make the top 5 but is still a
forever favorite and that is our mutual
friend this follows john harmon and
bella wilfer as they well fall in love
obviously you can't have a Dickens novel
without somebody falling in love but
there's this inheritance and there's a
lot of money being thrown around and
who's supposed to get the inheritance
and it was lots of mystery it's a good
one number 5 is Martin Chuzzlewit old
Martin Chuzzlewit has disowned his only
son young Martin Chuzzlewit and young
Martin runs off to America to make his
fortune of course leaving behind the
girl he loves because there has to be a
love story somewhere the main reason
that I love love
this book is the incredible character
development of young Martin in the
beginning I hated young Martin he is a
jerk and by the end it was like oh
nobody touched my young Martin he's my
sweetheart you know I completely fell in
love with him he has this amazing
redemption arc I mean the character
development I have never in my life read
a book with this kind of character
development it is just incredible to
follow this character through every step
of the way as he literally changes his
life so good
number four is Dombey and son this
follows up mr. Dom B who is a terrible
parent to his one son and his lovely
daughter the reason why I love this
first of all is because one of my heroes
is Walter gay who of course falls in
love with the daughter and he's just
he's such a good hero he just jumps in
and saves the day and all kinds of
wonderful stuff but the main main reason
why I love this is the lovely sibling
relationship between the brother and
sister the you know children of mr. Dom
B it's just oh it's such a beautiful
story and it's sad and bittersweet and
heartbreaking and I just love that
sibling relationship though how close
those two are I think that is my
favorite part of Dombey and son
number three is such a favorite that I
actually have two copies
it's A Tale of Two Cities there is a
reason why this is one of the most
famous books that Dickens ever wrote it
is incredible it is set during the
French Revolution and there are people
being beheaded right and left and there
is a poor prisoner who is released from
prison and his lovely daughter who of
course falls in love with the hero of
the story but the reason why people
really love this one I think is the
bittersweet ending I cried buckets and
buckets
at the ending and if you know this
ending then you know oh my goodness it
is so heart-wrenching ah it's just such
a full rich story and I can never get
over Tale of Two Cities forever
heartbroken
it's so wonderful the number two slot
goes to Bleak House and the main reason
for this is the main character Esther
Summerson Esther goes through just
terrible heartbreak and illness and just
awful circumstances she is pretty much
rescued by these lovely friends and she
just sets up this lovely life for
herself but continues to just drama
there just seems like everything always
goes wrong for Esther poor Esther and
through it all she is so resilient
she is so loving despite all the
disappointments and you know just
terrible situations in her life
she's so kind and loving and and not in
a like oh she's an angel kind of way but
in a really relatable way
and besides Esther there is just so much
fantastic mystery and humor and a very
complex plot like you know we're always
looking forward from Dickens the second
thing that I really love a bleak house
is mr. bucket he is a detective one of
the first detectives ever written in
British fiction and oh my goodness mr.
bucket in the beginning I was like I
don't know about this guy I'm not so
sure if I like this person and by the
end I was like yes mr. bucket oh I love
him I love him so much I can't even tell
you I cannot even explain if you've read
it you know mr. bucket we love mr.
bucket Oh Bleak House I just love it I'm
actually tearing up just thinking about
it
ah there are tears my eyes because I
love it so much okay I have to pull
myself together to tell you about
out the number one favorite Dickens
forever forever and incidentally this is
one of the first Dickens is maybe the
third or fourth Dickens novel that I
ever read you know back 15 years ago or
something when I really first started
getting into Dickens and despite all the
other Dickens that I've read this one
has remained my forever favorite it is
David Copperfield it's kind of funny
because David Copperfield is one of
those you either really love it or
you're really bored by it tons of people
have told me oh you like David
Copperfield that's so boring you know
and I really can't hardly even explain
to you why I love David Copperfield so
much I just know that I do for one thing
it is one of the very few Dickens I
think the only one that I can think of
that is told in first-person it is
narrated by David Copperfield himself
telling you about his life so that alone
makes it stand out among Dickens as
books another reason why I really love
it it is it has a much broader scope of
life than a lot of Dickens other novels
this follows young David from the time
he was born through his childhood
through his school days through his
young adulthood kind of setting him up
in a career and then finally with his
marriage and it really goes through just
this massive scope of his life and there
are very few other Dickens novels that
follow such a broad spectrum of time so
I guess I really love it because it's
more of a coming-of-age story and I
can't think of any others that are quite
I mean Oliver Twist maybe but at the end
of Oliver Twist Oliver Twist is still a
child so not that one leave me a comment
down below if you can think of more
coming-of-age kind of stories and
Dickens this is the only one I can
really think of that that fits that
description this a book also has
the worst villain in my opinion in all
of Dickens and Dickens is known for
writing really creepy villains like
villains that will just make you go oh
they're so gross and they're so nasty
and evil and you just cringe like
Dickens is known for writing really
really incredible villains and uriah
heep from David Copperfield in my
opinion is the worst
I just want to vomit just say the name
you're Riya Heep he is so slimy and he
pretends to be your friend he pretends
to be really humble and all the while
behind the scenes he is stealing and
lying and he's just a creep he just
grosses me out oh I hate him so much I
am getting emotional here okay there are
also a ton of humorous quirky weird
characters in David Copperfield mr.
Micawber just makes me laugh my head off
Betsey Trotwood David Copperfield aunt
is Betsey Trotwood and she is just so
strange like she is just so weird and
she just says the craziest stuff and I
just I just have to laugh I mean so much
humor in this book I pretty much just
laughed my way through David Copperfield
every time I read it of course the main
reason why I love David Copperfield is
David himself he is a fantastic hero in
my opinion some people say that he's
boring that he doesn't take enough
action but I feel like he just plays
such a central role in everything that
happens in the book he is foolish
sometimes he makes mistakes but through
every page I am just cheering him on
wanting him to succeed I could do a
whole separate video on why I love David
Copperfield there are so many fantastic
subplots betrayal and love and marriage
and of course
money which is always a major theme
there's a debtors prison again lots of
debtors prison in Dickens books David
Copperfield is also the book that is
said to be most like an autobiography
because so many of the elements in here
are taken from Dickens's own life in his
own childhood so I don't know maybe
that's why I love it so much because it
just rings so true because so many of
the elements and the plot devices and
different characters and things are true
people and true things that happened in
Dickens actual life Oh
David Copperfield I just love it forever
oh I just love it so much so much I
really need to reread this like today
and there you have it those are my five
favorite Dickens and an honorable
mention please leave me a comment down
below and let me know what is your
favorite Dickens novel thanks for
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