Pickwick Papers

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 been taken to the debtors' prison. 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. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. Klappentext When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836! no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature. Zusammenfassung When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have suspected that this journeyman task was to turn in to one of the great comic novels in English literature.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Dickens
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.1998
• EAN: 9781857152111
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-211-1
• No. of pages: 944
• Dimensions: 45 mm x 210 mm x 135 mm
• Series: Everyman's library; Everyman's Library Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary