The Dickens Project

Shipwreck, Storm, and Narrative Disingenuity in 'David Copperfield'

Former school teacher and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, Wayne Batten, examines David's silences and narrative evasions as a form of self-deception in David Copperfield.

David: Debauched, Dissipated, Drunkd

Serena Buie, Christian Lehmann, and Mira Rao discuss Chapter 24 of David Copperfield and reflect upon the camaraderie and the darker undertones present in their selected passages.

Dickens the Narrator

Michael Shelichach, a lecturer at Queens College, shares a ghastly passage from Oliver Twist with clues to help illuminate Dickens as the writer and narrator.

The Dombey House

Dickens Project Director John Jordan returns with a passage about the slow and incremental changes tracked within the Dombey household while Mr. Dombey is away. It centers on how the Dombey mansion "becomes almost another character in this wonderful novel."

Pickwick Club

Join us for a year of 19th-century literature with community readings of two novels by Charles Dickens.

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Dickens-to-Go

Watch our community video series celebrating favorite passages written by Charles Dickens.

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