Charles Dickens: His Life and Work

by Stephen Leacock

Overview

Stephen Leacock shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world. At the time of its original publication, Leacock's biography of Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand, and masterful examination of the man and his writing. It was a book that Leacock was enormously proud of.

Readable, entertaining and insightful, full of sharp commentary, this biography tells the life-story of one of the best-loved writers in the English language, and offers new insights into Dickens' greatest works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834144701
Publisher:	Reading Essentials
Publication date:	06/23/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	264 KB

About the Author

Stephen Leacock remains, one of the most celebrated writers of humor in the world. Author of more than sixty books with subjects ranging from humour to political science, he is perhaps best-known and loved for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Childhood and Youth of Dickens	1
	Poverty, Debt, and a Debtor's Prison
	The Sweet Uses of Adversity
Chapter 2	Mr. Pickwick Takes the World by Storm	17
	Dickens as a Reporter
	Sketches by Boz
	The Pickwick Papers
Chapter 3	"BOZ" Conquers England	34
	The Rise of a Rocket
	Oliver Twist
	Nicholas Nickleby
	Master Humphrey's Clock Bursts Its Case
Chapter 4	BOZ Visits America (1842)	57
	A National Reception
	The Roaring 'Forties
	Open Arms and Open Ingratitude
Chapter 5	Years of Success (1842-1847)	88
	Home Again
	Martin Chuzzlewit
	A Christmas Carol
	France and Italy
Chapter 6	Flood Tide (1845-1850)	108
	The Daily News
	Switzerland
	Paris
	Dombey and Son
	David Copperfield
Chapter 7	"Bleak House" and Social Reform (1850-1854)	133
	Amateur Theatricals
	Bleak House
	A Child's History of England
	Hard Times
Chapter 8	Dickens As an Editor (1854-1857)	153
	Household Words
	France
	Little Dorrit
	Gad's Hill
Chapter 9	Dickens Separates from His Wife (1858)	178
Chapter 10	Dickens Takes the Platform (1858-1865)	195
	Public Readings
	All the Year Round
	A Tale of Two Cities
	Our Mutual Friend
Chapter 11	The Second Visit to America	213
	A Quarter Century Later
	Dickens and Dollars
	Mark Twain Listens to Charles Dickens
Chapter 12	Closing in - The Close (1870)	231
	Last Readings
	Edwin Drood
	Death
Chapter 13	The Mystery of More than "Edwin Drood"	242
	Edwin Drood Still Alive
	Joyful Resurrections at Last Certain
	Epilogue	262
	At Rest in Westminster Abbey
	Dickens's Will
	His Family
	First Editions and Manuscripts
	His Place in Literature
	Chronology	267
	Index	273