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Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
G. K. Chesterton published an important defence of Dickens in his book Charles Dickens in 1906, where he describes him as this "most English of our great writers". [172] Dickens's literary reputation grew in the 1940s and 1950s because of essays by George Orwell and Edmund Wilson (both published in 1940), and Humphrey House's The Dickens World ...
The Life of Our Lord (1846–1849, pub. 1934) A Child's History of England (1853) The Uncommercial Traveller (1860–1869) Speeches, Letters and Sayings (1870) Miscellaneous Papers (1912) Contributions to All The Year Round (1912) Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (1851–1870, pub. 1892) (selected by Georgina Hogarth)
Jane Austen: A Life (1997) Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002) Whitbread biography and Book of the Year prizes, Pepys Society Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (2006), followed by a television film about Hardy, and published a collection of Hardy's poems. Charles Dickens: A Life (2011)
The Book of My Life: 1576 Michel de Montaigne: Of the Education of Children: 1580 Abraham Cowley: Of Myself: 1668 Colley Cibber: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself: 1740 Voltaire: Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même: 1759 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions: 1770 Benjamin Franklin
Charles Dickens — The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Benjamin Disraeli — Falconet; Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child, Solace of the Road; Gardner Dozois — Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick) Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp) G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page; E. R. Eddison ...
Nicholas Nickleby, or The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, is the third novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. The character of Nickleby is a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.
In 1859, Charles Dickens was the editor of his magazine Household Words, published by Bradbury and Evans; their refusal to publish Dickens' defensive "personal statement" on his divorce in their other publication, Punch, [3] led Dickens to create a new weekly magazine that he would own and control entirely.