10 Famous novels, Vol. 7 (Historical fiction) (A Tale of Two Cities, Bel Ami, House of the Seven Gables, Ivanhoe, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Black Arrow, The Last of the Mohicans, The Red Badge of Courage, The White Company, Vanity Fair- TOC WITH LINKS)

by Charles Dickens, Guy de Maupassant, James Fenimore Cooper, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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CONTENTS

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Bel Ami, Or, the History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant
House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014645362
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Series:	10 Famous novels , #7
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Born on February 7, 1812, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children in a family burdened with financial troubles. Despite difficult early years, he became the most successful British writer of the Victorian age.

In 1824, young Charles was withdrawn from school and forced to work at a boot-blacking factory when his improvident father, accompanied by his mother and siblings, was sentenced to three months in a debtor's prison. Once they were released, Charles attended a private school for three years. The young man then became a solicitor's clerk, mastered shorthand, and before long was employed as a Parliamentary reporter. When he was in his early twenties, Dickens began to publish stories and sketches of London life in a variety of periodicals.

It was the publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-1837) that catapulted the twenty-five-year-old author to national renown. Dickens wrote with unequaled speed and often worked on several novels at a time, publishing them first in monthly installments and then as books. His early novels Oliver Twist (1837-1838), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and A Christmas Carol (1843) solidified his enormous, ongoing popularity. As Dickens matured, his social criticism became increasingly biting, his humor dark, and his view of poverty darker still. David Copperfield (1849-1850), Bleak House (1852-1853), Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) are the great works of his masterful and prolific period.

In 1858 Dickens's twenty-three-year marriage to Catherine Hogarth dissolved when he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. The last years of his life were filled with intense activity: writing, managing amateur theatricals, and undertaking several reading tours that reinforced the public's favorable view of his work but took an enormous toll on his health. Working feverishly to the last, Dickens collapsed and died on June 8, 1870, leaving The Mystery of Edwin Drood uncompleted.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of David Copperfield.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington