Charles Dickens, Et Al.

Broschiertes Buch

A Budget of Christmas Tales

Beschreibung

CONTENTS A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ¿ The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster ¿ A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning ¿ Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller ¿ Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer ¿ The First Puritan Christmas Tree by Anonymous ¿ First New England Christmas by Hezekiah Butterworth ¿ The Chimes by Charles Dickens ¿ Billy's Santa Claus Experience by Cornelia Redmond ¿ Christmas in Poganuc by Mrs. H. B. Stowe ¿ The Christmas Princess by Mrs. Molesworth ¿ Widow Townsend's Visitor by Anonymous ¿ The Old Man's Christmas by Ella Wheeler Wilcox ¿ The Christmas Goblin by Charles Dickens ¿ The Song of the Star by C.H. Mead ¿ Indian Pete's Christmas Gift by H.W. Collingwood ¿ My Christmas Dinner by Anonymous ¿ The Poor Traveler by Charles Dickens ¿ The Legend of the Christmas Tree by Anonymous ¿ The Peace Egg by Juliana Horatia Ewing.

Autor

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently. As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels - Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781644399965
• ISBN-10: 1644399962
• Artikelnr.: 66476549