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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 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.
Newman Noggs and Kate Nickleby - Charles Dickens. Chadband, Reverend Hypocritical clergyman, admonishing Jo in the spirit while Jo starves. Marries the former Mrs Rachael in Bleak House. Cheeryble Brothers Charles and Edwin (Ned). Benevolent businessmen who employ and befriend Nicholas Nickleby and his family.
Our Mutual Friend (5 P) P. The Pickwick Papers (1 C, 12 P, 1 F) T. A Tale of Two Cities (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Novels by Charles Dickens"
Dickens's correspondents spanned the whole social scale of 19th century England from reformed street prostitutes to Queen Victoria herself. They included family members, of course, and Dickens's publishers; writers like Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, John Forster, Alfred Tennyson (not yet ennobled), and William Makepeace Thackeray; the artists Clarkson Stanfield ...
What: Charles Dickens’ original handwritten manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" from December 1843 Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., New York
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens.It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. [1]
The book was written in late 1844, during Dickens's year-long visit to Italy. [2] John Forster , his first biographer, records that Dickens, hunting for a title and structure for his next contracted Christmas story, was struck one day by the clamour of the Genoese bells audible from the villa where they were staying.