Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens at Victorian Web.
David Perdue's Charles Dickens page.
Titles I've written about:
A Tale of Two Cities (1859):
I'm finding that I'm enjoying Dickens' rhythm and pacing and description. When we were force-fed Oliver Twist (which is the only Dickens I've read other than A Christmas Carol) in ninth grade, I remembered liking it despite all of that (and especially what I thought of as his long-winded-ness), because I got hooked on the story and the characters -- but this time through, almost every sentence is giving me a clear, sparkly-bright image in my head. (Even when it's of a dark and muddy night. You know what I mean.)