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The Sixth Reader of the Popular Series

The Sixth Reader of the Popular Series

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150521961
ISBN13: 9781150521966
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... OHAPTEE LXXXVI.-OHARLES DICKENS.-1812-1870. I.--Biographical. 1. This most popular writer of fiction was born at Portsmouth, England, and was brought up by his father to be a Parliamentary reporter. While thus engaged, in the pay of the Morning Chronicle, young Dickens began writing Sketches of Life and Character under the name Boz. The great popularity of these sketches led a London publisher to engage Mr. Dickens to write a humorous book concerning cockney sportsmen. Such was the origin of the Pickwick Papers. Mr. Dickens's work disclosed a talent for a mirthful and benevolent humor, which was welcomed with avidity by the public, and these early writings were speedily followed by Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Master Humphrey's Clock, and Barnaby Pudge. 2. Mr. Dickens's earlier works, including such novels as Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, and Bleak House, are full of incident, animation, and pathos. His later works, like Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, evince more of the mechanism and verbal prolixity of the professional author. Mr. Dickens twice visited America, --once in 18-12, and again in the year before his death. The rather excessive hospitality lavished upon him during his first visit he requited, immediately on his return to England, by the publication of his American Notes, in which our peculiarities were handled with grotesque exaggeration. To the resentment manifested by a hypersensitive people, Dickens replied with the story of Martin Chuzzlewit, in which Mark Tapley, whose scheme of life it is to be jolly under difficulties, finds in America not one circumstance or condition to lower the buoyancy of his heart. On his second visit to America Mr. Dickens came with a mellower and kindlier...

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