Review:
"Dickens's most mature meditation on the ethics of capitalism is haunted by ambivalent images of railroads, progress and death" Guardian "Dickens' sentences, his bold, sentimental outcries addressed to the reader and his marvelously imagistic descriptions, are a part of the magical world that assaults and seduces any reader" Chicago Tribune "A thoroughly gripping affair...Guaranteed laughs, guaranteed tears" Daily Mail "'There's no writing against such power as this-one has no chance'" -- William Makepeace Thackeray "Nothing seems more quintessentially British than Charles Dickens" -- The Times
About the Author:
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
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