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At the conclusion of his first contribution, about the mayor of the provincial town of Mudfog, Dickens explains that "this is the first time we have published any of our gleanings from this particular source", referring to The Mudfog Papers. He also suggests that "at some future period, we may venture to open the chronicles of Mudfog".
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.
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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.
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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.
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 ...
The Old Curiosity Shop is the fourth novel by English author Charles Dickens; being one of his two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers reputedly stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final ...