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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died. [1] They have been described as "invariably idiosyncratic, exuberant, vivid, and amusing…widely recognized as a significant body of work in themselves, part of the Dickens ...
Dickens's offence at this unauthorised staging prompted him to have Nicholas encounter a "literary gentleman", to whom Nicholas delivers a lengthy and heated condemnation of the practice of adapting still-unfinished books without the author's permission. [23] Smike (1973), a musical adaptation written by Simon May, Clive Barnett and Roger Holman.
The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel Great Expectations (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and ...
What: Charles Dickens’ original handwritten manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" from December 1843 Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., New York
The squalid conditions Charles Dickens described would have been influenced by these close family ties. Alfred Dickens died at the Mosley Arms Inn in Manchester on 27 July 1860, from pleurisy . His widow, Helen, and their five children were living in Manchester at the time of his death, and Charles went there at once and brought them back with ...
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.