Download or read book Great Literature Online: Speeches: Literary and Social written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Literature Online features the full text of some literary and social speeches written by the English novelist Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870). The speeches were given between 1841 and 1870 at various functions, some in honor of Dickens.