Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. [1] Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and finished it by 1 December.
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.
The 2009 novel The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl is a fictionalised account of events after Dickens's death related to his unfinished novel. In Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, there is a cut scene where the main character Jacob has a chance encounter with Dickens, who loses some pages from his notes, possibly causing the novel to be unfinished. A ...
"Tom Tiddler's Ground" is the title of an 1861 set of short stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and John Harwood, published in All the Year Round. [2] The phrase "Tom Tiddler's ground" also appears in Dickens's novels Nicholas Nickleby , David Copperfield and Dombey and Son .
"Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman ...
Investors have been burned by past crashes, most notably in the early 1980s, when gold prices fell some 45% as the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to stop runaway inflation; and in 2013, when ...
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era. Hard Times is unusual in several ways.