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The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.His previous work was Sketches by Boz, published in 1836, and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour, [1] and to connect them into a novel.
From one of Dickens lesser known books, The Cricket on the Hearth. Plummer, Caleb is Mr Tackleton's underpaid toy maker in The Cricket on the Hearth. Plummer, Edward the son of Caleb Plummer in The Cricket on the Hearth. Pocket, Belinda always has her nose in a book of titles. Her father was a Knight "who had invented for himself a conviction ...
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]
What: Charles Dickens’ original handwritten manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" from December 1843 Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., New York
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress.
Master Juba, an African American performer, is described as the "greatest dancer known" by Charles Dickens. He is one of the first blacks to perform onstage for white audiences. [100] He is the first popular African American to perform in blackface. [101] Master Juba. The term minstrelsy begins to be used to describe blackface entertainment. [102]
Following almost immediately upon Charles Dickens's death, playwrights and theatre companies have mounted versions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood with varying degrees of popularity, success, and faithfulness to the original work. A musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by Rupert Holmes proved to be the first modern major theatrical ...