Great Expectation 2013 movie trailer
Little Dorrit BBC TV preview
The Mystery of Edwin Drood BBC TV preview
Bleak House BBC TV preview
David Copperfield Trailer 2000
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Original Trailer
The following timeline tracks important events in Dickens' life and events which heavily influenced his writing, as well as publication times for each of his major works.
1812: Dickens born in Portsmouth
1824: Dickens’ father is imprisoned; he is pulled out of school and sent to work in the factory
1827: Began work as a clerk
1830: Dickens falls in love with Maria Beadnell
1833: First sketch “Dinner at Poplar Walk” is published in a monthly magazine
1836-7: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club installations published
1836: Dickens marries Katherine Hogarth
1837: First child, Charley, born
1837: Sister-in-law Mary dies in Charles’s arms
1837-9: Oliver Twist
1838-9: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1840-1: The Old Curiosity Shop
1841: Barnaby Rudge
1842: First visit to America
1843: A Christmas Carol
1843-4: Martin Chuzzlewit
1846-8: Dombey and Son
1849-50: David Copperfield
1852-3: Bleak House
1854: Hard Times
1855: Dickens reunites with Maria Winter (Maria Beadnell)
1856: Dickens’ income allows him to buy his dream home Gad’s Hill
1856: Little Dorrit
1857: Dickens falls for Ellen Ternan
1858: Dickens separates from his wife
1858: Dickens begins his first major reading tour
1859: A Tale of Two Cities
1860: Dickens burns all his personal correspondences
1860-61: Great Expectations
1865: Staplehurst Railway Crash
1865: Our Mutual Friend
1866: Dickens begins his second major reading tour
1868: Dickens begins his “Farewell Readings” tour
1870: Begins the Mystery of Edwin Drood
1870: Dickens dies from a stroke
1939: Dickens’ relationship with Ellen Ternan revealed
Great Expectation
The story of an orphan boy named Pip, raised on the mysterious marshes of the English countryside as a simple blacksmith’s apprentice. However, his strange childhood encounters with a criminal on the run, a broken-hearted old woman, and a beautiful girl named Estella destine him to be much more than just a common boy. Great Expectations is the story of how an unexpected fortune answered all of Pip’s dreams, but threatened to unravel his life.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a story of past love and past demons being recalled to life. Beautiful and innocent Lucie Manette is reunited with her father in England after he suffers 20 years of imprisonment in the famous French Bastille prison. While Lucie tries to build a happy life with her father and the man she loves, the peasants of Saint Antoine, starved and beaten for so long, are plotting a revolution. The shadow of the guillotine will soon fall on Paris, and not even the happy family in London is safe.
David Copperfield
As a young boy, David Copperfield’s happy life is torn from him. From beatings at school to begging on the street, David must make his own way for himself. Eventually taken in by his aunt, David is able to reconstruct his life, but as he pursues a career as a writer, and a marriage with the girl of his dreams, the shadows of David’s past reappear. They show themselves in a mysterious death, in the betrayal of his best friend, in the stormy seas, and most of all, in the lies of his ominous childhood acquaintance, Uriah Heep. David Copperfield was Dickens’ personal favorite, and is the most autobiographical of all his novels.