Charles Dickens: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors)

From working in a shoe-blacking factory as a 12-year-old to help his family while his father was in debtor�s prison, Charles Dickens rose to become one of the best-known novelists of all time. Lines like Oliver Twist�s �Please sir, may I have some more?� or the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities �It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.� are part of the popular vocabulary, and many of Dickens� works have been translated into movies or TV series. Yet the story of his rise from relative obscurity to immense fame and popularity is not a simple one. Always energetic and unceasingly active, writing until the day before his death, Dickens proves to be a character as interesting as many of those he created. Inside you will read about... ? Providing for His Family as a Child ? Beginnings as an Author ? Increasing Fame ? The Republic of My Imagination ? Rumors and Infidelity ? Return to America and Last Years And much more! In this book, you�ll meet the author who not only wrote famous novels like Great Expectations and David Copperfield, but whose work also helped to develop and popularize the genre of the novel.

• | Author: Hourly History
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 42 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1986303500
• | ISBN-13: 9781986303507