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Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking warehouse. This painful period inspired much of his fiction. Then he worked as an office boy, studied shorthand and became reporter of debates in the Commons for the “Morning Chronicle”, collaborating later with other newspapers. These attracted much attention and led to an approach from Chapman and Hall which resulted in the creation of Mr. Pickwick, and the publication in twenty monthly numbers of “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”. Dickens captured the popular imagination as no other novelist had done and was admired by contemporaries as varied as Queen Victoria and Dostoevsky. Later criticism has tended to praise the complexity of the sombre late works at the expense of the high spirited humour and genius for caricature. “The Cricket on the Hearth” (1846). John Peerybingle, carrier, and his younger wife, Dot, are a happy couple, although the venomous old Tackleton throws suspicion on Dot´s sincerity. Unfortunately this suspicion seems to reveal a certainty.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 150871455X
- ISBN 13 9781508714552
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
- EditorBates Philip
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