TOP TEN DEATH SCENES IN DICKENS
(In no particular order)
1. Fagin tormented awaiting execution.
2. Nancy murdered by Bill Sykes
3. Smike dies of consumption
4. Sidney Carton’s far, far better thing
5. Little Nell dies of exhaustion and her grandfather sits on her grave waiting for her to return.
6. Little Paul Dombey dies and leaves the house of Dombey sonless.
7. David Copperfield’s spendthrift first wife Dora dies leaving him free to marry a more sensible woman.
8. James Steerforth and Ham Peggoty drown in a shipwreck.
9. Lady Dedlock believing herself disgraced, takes herself to a graveyard to die alone.
10. Dennis the hangman is himself hanged
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