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Informationen zum Autor Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7! 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office! who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors' prison.Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers ! his first commercial success! was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth! Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity America as well as Britain. He separated from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870! leaving his last novel! The Mystery of Edwin Drood ! unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Klappentext A beautiful hardback book featuring a selection of the best of Dickens's Christmas stories and writings. It's said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas! and here the reader will find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas: snowy rooftops! gleaming shop windows! steaming bowls of punch! plum puddings! stuffing! miracles! magic! charity and goodwill. 'Charles Dickens is an indelible part of Yuletide reading' "Guardian" Zusammenfassung It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas! and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops! gleaming shop windows! steaming bowls of punch! plum puddings like speckled cannon balls! sage and onion stuffing! miracles! magic! charity and goodwill.
