Charles Dickens

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Catherine Peters ISBN: 9780752487090
Publisher: The History Press Publication: May 30, 2012
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Catherine Peters
ISBN: 9780752487090
Publisher: The History Press
Publication: May 30, 2012
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English

Charles Dickens was in his own day the most popular novelist who had ever lived, a public figure adored like a present-day pop star. He still holds his place as one of the greatest English writers, an original genius whose novels are an essential link in the canon of English literature. He was also actively involved in the life of his time, campaigning for social and educational reform and sharply critical of contemporary society. This short biography provides an excellent introduction to Dickens, from his disturbed childhood with a traumatic period working in a blacking factory, his instant success as a young writer and his tumultuous acclaim in both England and America, the major novels of the 1850s and 1860s and the establishment of Household Words, to the final years as a public performer of his own work.

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Charles Dickens was in his own day the most popular novelist who had ever lived, a public figure adored like a present-day pop star. He still holds his place as one of the greatest English writers, an original genius whose novels are an essential link in the canon of English literature. He was also actively involved in the life of his time, campaigning for social and educational reform and sharply critical of contemporary society. This short biography provides an excellent introduction to Dickens, from his disturbed childhood with a traumatic period working in a blacking factory, his instant success as a young writer and his tumultuous acclaim in both England and America, the major novels of the 1850s and 1860s and the establishment of Household Words, to the final years as a public performer of his own work.

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