Charles Dickens
The Shipwreck
Summary
Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
THE SHIPWRECK: Never had I seen a year going out, or going on, under quieter circumstances. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine had but another day to live, and truly its end was Peace on that sea-shore that morning.
Listen on
From the publisher
Show publisher
Brothers Grimm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brothers Grimm
Brett Fitzpatrick
Various Authors
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
From the same authors
