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Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens

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  1. Charles Dickens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

  2. Life • Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812–9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.

  3. Life • Many of his novels, with their recurrent theme of social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form,

  4. Life • a popular format at the time. Unlike other authors who completed entire novels before serialisation,

  5. Life • Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The practice lent his stories a particular rhythm,

  6. Life • punctuated by cliffhangers to keep the public looking forward to the next instalment.The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print.

  7. Life • His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton,

  8. Life • though the same characteristics prompted others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, to criticise him for sentimentality and implausibility.

  9. Stories • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)[83] • The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)

  10. External links • http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Charles_Dickens • http://charlesdickenspage.com/index.html • http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php?author=Charles%20Dickens

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