Charles Dickens is one of the most famous writers of all time with his books having been read by countless literature fans and English students throughout the world for over 150 years. But, how much do you know about the man behind the words? Dickens' life was the best of times at the height of his fame and the worst of times during his childhood. Find out all the details about Charles Dickens and his unusual life and how this influenced his books in our 10 fascinating facts about Charles Dickens...
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Charles Dickens is one of the most famous writers of all time with his books having been read by countless literature fans and English students throughout the world for over 150 years. But, how much do you know about the man behind the words? Dickens' life was the best of times at the height of his fame and the worst of times during his childhood. Find out all the details about Charles Dickens and his unusual life and how this influenced his books in our 10 fascinating facts about Charles Dickens...
Literary style
Literary style
Dickens favoured the style of the 18th-century picaresque
novels that he found in abundance on his father's shelves. According to
Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him
was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights.
Dickens's Dream by Robert William Buss, portraying Dickens
at his desk at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of his characters
Christmas carol
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
Notable works
Notable works
Dickens published well over a dozen major novels and
novellas, a large number of short stories, including a number of
Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books.
Dickens's novels were initially serialised in weekly and monthly magazines,
then reprinted in standard book formats.
Early works
First major novels
After a year abroad in Italy and writing Pictures from Italy (1846), Dickens published installments of Dombey and Son, which continued till 1848.
Early works
Early works
In 1836 Dickens also began to publish The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club in
monthly installments, a form of serial publication that became a standard method of writing and producing fiction in the Victorian period.
Biography
Charles John Huffam Dickens 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.
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