Charles Dickens: 7 non-fiction books

by Charles Dickens

Overview

This book-collection file includes all 16 novels, 12 Christmas stories, 9 collections of stories and sketches, 13 individual stories, 7 non-fiction books, and 10 books about Dickens. The novels include: Pickwick, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little dorrit, a Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, No thoroughfare, and Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Christmas stories are: Battle of Life, Chimes, A Christmas Carol, Haunted man and the Bhost's Bargain, The Holly-Tree, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story. The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. The collections of stories and sketches are: Sksetches by Boz, The Uncommerical Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, A House to let, Contributioins to All the Year Round, Three Ghost Stories, Mudgof and other Sketches, Sketches of Young Couples, and Sketches of Young Gentlemen. The individual stories and sketches are: Doctor Marigold, George Silverman's Explanation, Going into Society, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down, The Lamplighter, A Message from the Sea, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction, The Seven Poor Travellers, and Somebody's Luggage. The non-fiction books are: American Notes for General Circulation, A Child's History of England, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Miscellaneous Papers, Pictures from italy, Reprinted Pieces, and Speeches: Literary and Social. The books about Dickens are: Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, appreicatiosn andCriticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G.K. Chesterton, The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by Nats, The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick by Lockwood, Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Fitzgerald, The Puzzle of dickens's Last Plot by Lang, Ten Boys from Dickens by Sweetser, and Ten Girls from Dickens by Sweetser. According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (IPA: /'t??:lz 'd?k?nz/; 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form-a popular format for fiction at the time-and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000730201
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	10/20/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 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