Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Marley was dead to begin with.' So begins one of the best-loved and famous Christmas stories that has been filmed, inspired musicals, and plays, and still entertains with a timeless story of transformation from meanness to generosity and kindness. A sensational success when it was published, 'A Christmas Caro'l was written by Charles Dickens. Dickens wrote tirelessly to expose the terrible wrongs inflicted on children, and workers in Victorian times by miserable miserly bosses and people in control. 'Cricket on the Hearth', another Christmas story, is included in this wonderful book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Gresham Library
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849344050
• Artikelnr.: 44472392

Autorenporträt

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.