Question Nos. 711 to 720 contain the "Plot Overviews" of the novels.
Identify the names of the novels by reading the Plot Overviews, writing down on a piece of paper.
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LIST OF THE SELECTED TEN NOVELS
of CHARLES DICKENS1. Bleak House
2. David Copperfield
3. Hard Times
4. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
5. The Old Curiosity Shop
6. Oliver Twist
7. Nicholas Nickleby.
8. A Tale of Two Cities
9. Great Expectations
10. The Battle of Life.
PLOT OVERVIEWS
701.
Protagonists: sisters Grace and Marion. Alfred = Grace's childhood sweet heart, but engaged to Marion. Michael Warden = a squire. Conflict creation: Marion going to her aunt's house. Creating an impression that she ran away with Warden. Grace and Alfred coming together. Conflict resolution: Return of Warden. Return of Marion. Denouement: Likelihood of Marion marrying Warden.
702.
FProtagonists: Ms. Esther, Ms. Ada Clare. MProtagonists: Mr. Richard Carstone, Allan WoodCourt. Theme: 1. Mingling of love 2. Perils of law suits. Antagonist: Mr. Tulkinghorn, lawyer. Sub-plot: Love story of Lady Dedlock, mother of Ms. Esther. Action: Blackmailing behavior of Tulkinghorn. Murder of Tulkingborn. Esther and Woodcourt love, but Esther agrees to marry Mr. Jarndyce, her guardian. Esther catches small pox and gets defaced. Jarndyce releases Esther. Richard wins the law suit, but becomes insolvent, legal expenses knocking him down. Richard marries Ada. Esther comes to know that Lady Dedlock was her mother. Dedlock leaves home, in ignominy and remorse and dies. Her body is found near the place of burial of her first lover Hawdon. Richard dies. Ada gets a child. Esther married Woodcourt. They get two children. Woodcourt find Esther's face beautiful, despite scars.
703.
Believed to be an autobiographical work of Charles Dickens. Protagonist: David, a fatherless boy. Fprotagonist 1: Dora Spenlow. Fprotagonist 2: Agne Wickfield, childhood friend of David. Clara: David's mother. Antagonist: Murdstone, step father of David. Benevolent Fcharacters: Betsey trotwood, aunt. Benevolent Mcharacters: Mr. Micawber, who takes David as border when he was working in bottle factory. Action: David resists illtreatment by Murdstone. Mother dies. Murdstone takes him out from the school and sends to work in a bottle factory. Mr. Micawber treats him with some gentleness. David goes to his aunt, when Micawber was sent to a debtor's prison. With her financial help, he becomes a lawyer. Marries Dora. Dora fails in running home, owing to her frailness. Micawber returns and saves the 2nd Fprotagonist Agne Wickfield from the clutches of a blackmailer. Dora dies. David proceeds to Switzerland. His writing career picks up. Meets his stepfather Murdstone and faces him courageously. Vows to publish the cruel tale of his step father. Returns to England. Marries Agnes. Happy end.
704.
Plot: A love triangle. Mprotagonist: Pip, an orphan, living with his abusive sister. Fprotagonist1: Estella, adopted daughter of Ms. Havisham, a crippled elderly woman. Fprotagonist2: Biddy, friend at night school. Benevolent character: Miss. Havisham, living still in wedding gown. Action: Pip's uncle sends him to Ms. Havisham's house to play with Estella. Estella and Miss Havisham treat Pip shabbily, but Pip endures it. Pip wins a kiss from Estella, when he beats a toady relative of hers. After long gap, Ms. Havisham pays for a blacksmithy apprenticeship of Pip with Joe. Pip's sister becomes near-mad. Biddy helps him. Pip loves her. Turning Point: A London Lawyer brings a news that Ms. Havisham sends him a windfall, in return for his marrying Estella. Pip gets new suits. Learns money changes lives. Pip calls Biddy jealous. Pip leaves for London to become a gentleman. Happy end.
705.
Theme: Evils of industrialisation. Fprotagonist: Louisia. No Mprotagonist. Tom: Brother of Louisia. Antagonist: James Harthouse, a young sophisticate from London. Action: Louisia's father suffers from obsolete ideas. Marries her off to a 30 years elder banker and industrialist Josiah Bounderby. Tom works in Bounderby's bank. Harthouse tries to seduce Louisia. Louisia escapes and returns to her father. Tom robs his brother-in-law's bank, but the brother-in-law suspects a factory hand. The brother-in-law falls in a coal shaft and dies. Tom escapes to England. Tom dies, a changed man. Louisia does not remarry. Philosophy under test: Self-interest and rationalism.
706.
Theme: Lover saving the life of his beloved and her husband, by himself going to the guillotine. 1. Sacrifice 2. Love triangle. Protagonist1: Sydney Carton. P2: Charles Darney. Heroine: Lucie Manette, a 17 year-old girl. Period: French Revolution. The P2 faces charges as a spy for the France and US and is under trial. P1, Sydney Carton is an attorney assisting Mr. Stryver who is defending the P2. Carton has a resemblance of P2 Darney. In the court room scene, he dresses himself as Darney and convinces the court about double identification of Darney. Saves the life of Darney for the first time. Later, Lucie reciprocates Darney's love and marrries him. Carton loves Lucie but does not propose to her, because he considers himself 'unlovable' in view of his drunken and apathetic ways (Unrequieted love). Darney falls into the custody of French revolutionaries and faces trial. Carton goes to guillotine to save Darney and Lucie. Saves Darney's life for the second time.
707.
Unfinished novel. Love Triangle. MProtagonist: Edwin Drood. FProtagonist: Miss Rosa Budd. Antagonist1: Neville. Antagonist2: John Japser, uncle of Drood. Action: Drood and Neville fight for Rosa. Drood and Rosa run off. Neville and Jasper follow them. Drood and Rosa feel unhappy, though they are getting ready to marry. Some drinks served by Jasper. Drood disappears in the stormy nights. Dick Datchery, commences a private investigation.
708.
Theme: Death of an innocent girl, chased by pursuers. Protagonist1: Little Nell, a beautiful, virtuous and young girl. P2: Kit, a young lad, whom Nell teaches reading and writing.Antagonist1: Quilp, a dwarf, and wicked money lender. Antagonist2: Frederick, an idler brother of Nell. Antagonist3: Richard Swiveller, an accomplice of Frederick. Flawed, benevolent character: Nell's grandfather. ACTION: The grandfather gambles away whatever little he has. Nell + grandfather move into midlands of Britain, to live as beggars. Frederick believes that Nell inherits a fortune. Frederick and Swiveller enter into a conspiracy that after tracing out Nell, Swiveller can marry Nell and her inheritance can be shared by Frederick and Swiveller. With the help of Quilp they shadow Nell and her grandfather. Quilp frames Kit as a theif. Kit receives a sentence of transportation. Swiveller rescues Kit. Kit too joins the search for Nell. Under chase Nell and her g/f suffer hardships, but finally reach a safe place. In the process, Nell's health suffers irretrievably. Nell dies.
709.
Child protagonist-the title character, an orphan. Suffers the pangs of child labor of hunger. Antagonist1: Fagin, leader of a criminal gang. Antagonist2: Beadle of an orphanage-cum-workhouse. Antagonist3: Noah, fellow apprentice of the protagonist. Antagonist4: Monks, a half-brother of the protagonist. Benefactors: Brownlow. ACTION: In the orphanage, the protagonist asks for another portion of gruel. The Orphanage Managers sell him to an undertaker, who uses him as a mute (mourner). The protagonist suffers hunger in the hands of the undertaker's wife. Suffers in the hands of fellow apprentice, who insults his late mother. The protagonist repels the apprentice forcefully. The undertaker, his wife, the apprentice and beadle (a minor parish official, in charge of the orphanage) beat the protagonist. The protagonist runs away, reaches LOndon and falls into the hands of a pick pocketing gang. While others were on the job, the protagonist was caught by police and tried. In the absence of evidence, the judge had to acquit him. Now, the protagonist falls into the hands of a benevolent character Mr. Brownlow. The criminal gang kidnaps him again and inducts him into burglaries. While on the job of a burglary, the protagonist was shot inside a house by the occupants. But they (Rose Maylie) pity the boy, and nurse him.
The protagonist inherits a small fortune. Shares it with Monks, at the instance of Brownlow. Police arrest the antagonist (Fagis) and send him to gallows. Rose Maylie turns out to be the maternal aunt of the protagonist. The protagonist lives with his savior i.e. Mr. Brownlow. Happy end.
710.
The third novel of Charles Dickens. Huge number of characters. Protagonist: a youngman to support his mother and sister after the death of his father. Heroine: Madeline Bray, a beautiful girl. Antagonist1: Ralph, malevolent uncle. A2: Wackford Squeers. A3: Sir Mulberry Hawks. Kate: Protagonist's sister. Smike: S/o Ralph, Antagonist1.
ACTION: The Protagonist works as teacher in Dotheyboyshall, Yorkshire. Kate works as a seamstress. Squeers, the school headmaster beats children mercylessly. One day, he beats Smike, a boy. The Protagonist beats his Headmaster and flees along with Smike. Both join a Theater Company as actors. Antagonist1 (Ralph -Uncle) tries to use Kate as a plaything to his business associates. Kate does not cooperate. A1 and A2 accuse the protagonist of theft. The protagonist comes out safely from the charge. The protagonist leaves the theatrical job. At London, he finds A1 and his men insulting his sister Kate. He fights them and stops it. The protagonist lands in a good job with Cheerybles. He rescues the heroine Madeline from a forced marriage and keeps her in the custody of his mother and sister (Kate). A1 kidnaps the boy Smike. The protagonist gets him back. But the boy dies of TB. CLIMAX REVELATION:A1 comes to know that the dead Smike was his son. A1 commits suicide. Happy End: The protagonist marries the heroine Madeline. His sister Kate marries a neview of Cheeryble. Murder of A2 and A3. Closure of the Dotheyboys Hall.
