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If you were reading Charles Dickens for the first time....

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Theknitwitch · 01/01/2017 18:09

... what would you read.
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CauliflowerSqueeze · 01/01/2017 18:10

A Christmas Carol

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SherlockPotter · 01/01/2017 18:11

Oliver Twist

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CauliflowerSqueeze · 01/01/2017 18:11

Or maybe Oliver Twist or Great Expectations.

Don't recommend Bleak House as the first.

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myoriginal3 · 01/01/2017 18:11

Hard Times

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Allalonenow · 01/01/2017 18:11

David Copperfield.

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Finola1step · 01/01/2017 18:11

Oliver Twist

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Cantgetmyoldnameback · 01/01/2017 18:12

A Tale of Two Cities

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inisfree · 01/01/2017 18:12

Great Expectations

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FannyCradock · 01/01/2017 18:12

Great expectations

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charlestrenet · 01/01/2017 18:13

Our Mutual Friend.

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conserveisposhforjam · 01/01/2017 18:14

David copperfield I reckon.

But he gives good story in all his young-boy-in-a-pickle stories so Nicholas nickleby, Great expectations, those other ones I can't think of right now...

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CobOnTheCorn · 01/01/2017 18:14

I read Great Expectations first

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DragonTail · 01/01/2017 18:14

A Tale of Two Cities or a Christmas Carol

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conserveisposhforjam · 01/01/2017 18:15

Little dorrit is good too...

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fluffiphlox · 01/01/2017 18:15

Great Expectations.

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pinkpompoms · 01/01/2017 18:43

Great Expectations for me

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MistyMeena · 01/01/2017 18:46

Great Expectations
Hard Times

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HandsomeDevil · 01/01/2017 18:48

hard times is probably the shortest, so a good starting point. Dickens' novels can be v.long indeed.

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WillWorkForShoes · 01/01/2017 20:11

A Christmas Carol as it is short and well known, then Great Expectations, then Oliver Twist. After that you'll be hooked!!

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TempehTantrum · 01/01/2017 20:20

Great Expectations

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SatsukiKusakabe · 01/01/2017 20:54

I'd recommend starting with Great Expectations but personally I loved Take of Two Cities.

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SatsukiKusakabe · 01/01/2017 20:55

*tale

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ElizaBenson · 01/01/2017 21:00

A Christmas Carol and then great expectations

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MiddlingMum · 01/01/2017 21:07

Great Expectations. David Copperfield. Oliver Twist.

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WobblyLondoner · 01/01/2017 21:09

God no - not a tale of two cities! Have just abandoned it about 100 pages in.

I'd go for great expectations or a Christmas carol.

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