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Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, Hauppauge
Intro -- Contents -- Preface* -- Chapter 1 -- Lesson of His Life and Writings - Character of His Genius - Ancestry - John Dickens, the Government Clerk - His Family - Removal to London - Newspaper Reporter - Micawber and Mrs. Nickleby - Charles...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface* -- Chapter 1 -- Lesson of His Life and Writings - Character of His Genius - Ancestry - John Dickens, the Government Clerk - His Family - Removal to London - Newspaper Reporter - Micawber and Mrs. Nickleby - Charles Dickens's Education - Truth in Fiction - Rochester ... -- Chapter 2 -- English Lawyers - Articled Clerks - Short-Hand Writing - Dickens as a Reporter - Mirror of Parliament - True Sun - Morning Chronicle - First Authorship - Writing the "Sketches" - John Black, Our Old-Time Editor - Recollections by N. P. Willis - Publisher -- Chapter 3 -- The Origin of the Name of "Boz" ( Variety of the "Sketches" ( Epigram ( The Demosthenes of the Tap ( Old Bailey Characters ( Fagin and the Artful Dodger Shadowed Forth ( Bumble and Mrs. Gamp - Cruikshank's Illustrations ( The Countess and the Publisher -- Chapter 4 -- First Laurels Won ( How the "Pickwick Papers" Were Begun ( The Shilling Number System ( Green Paper Covers - Lever and Thackeray ( Mr. Sergeant Talfourd ( Copyright ( Proposed Nimrod Club ( Mr. Pickwick Found at Richmond - Reception of Pickwick ( Intr... -- Chapter 5 -- "The Wits' Miscellany" ( Dickens Edits Bentley's ( Douglas Jerrold - Artists and Authors - Dickens' Contributions ( Oliver Twist ( Purpose and Moral ( Author's Law ( Fagin's Conviction - Jacob's Island ( Dramatic Versions -- Chapter 6 -- Publications Unavowed or Forgotten ( Sunday in London ( The Poor Men's Sunday Dinner ( Sketches of Young Ladies and of Young Gentlemen ( Memoirs of Grimaldi ( The Pic-Nic Papers ( Thomas Moore's Prose and Verse ( Dramatic Performances: The Strange Gen... -- Chapter 7 -- Marriage ( George Hogarth ( A Compliment from Lockhart ( Dickens a Man of Method( The Misses Hogarth ( Fanny Hogarth's Sudden Death ( Publication Suspended ( Mr. Dickens Interviewed ( "Young Bozzes" -- Chapter 8 Retires from Bentley's Miscellany ( Retrospect ( Yorkshire Schools ( Picks up John Browdie and Wackford Squeers ( Nicholas Nickleby ( Dotheboys Hall ( The Crummles Party ( Cheeryble Brothers ( Change of Plot ( Authorship Avowed ( Portrait by Maclise (... -- Chapter 9 -- Master Humphrey's Clock ( Its Proposed Object ( Illustrations ( The Works - Author's Confession ( Mr. Pickwick and the Wellers Revived ( The Precocious Grandson ( Old Curiosity Shop ( Little Nell ( Thomas Hood ( Barnaby Rudge ( Riots of London ( The R... -- Chapter 10 -- Visit to America ( At Boston - Dickens's Dinner ( Geoffrey Crayon and Boz ( Dickens at Sunnyside ( In Philadelphia ( Washington ( In Congress -- Chapter 11 -- American Notes for General Circulation ( Pickwick Readings at a White-Smith's ( Reception of the Notes in England ( Other Tourists ( Change for the Notes ( Lord Jeffrey's Opinion ( Martin Chuzzlewit ( Crusade against Selfishness ( English Criticisms ... -- Chapter 12 -- Relations with Artists ( George Cruikshank ( Tom and Jerry ( How Oliver Twist Was Brought to London ( Re-Purchasing Copyrights ( Robert Seymour's Sketches ( Succeeded by "Phiz" ( The Author's Last History op Pickwick ( The Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa (... -- Chapter 13 -- Visit to Italy and Switzerland ( Editorship of Daily News ( London Newspapers - Pictures from Italy ( Return to Switzerland ( Dombey and Son ( Lord Jeffrey on the Death of Little Paul -- Chapter 14 -- Originals of Fictitious Characters ( Old Weller and Miss Huddart ( Mr. Tracy Tupman and The Fat Boy ( Mrs. Bardell ( Mr. Justice Stareleigh ( Mr. Sergeant Buzfuz ( Dodson and Fogg ( Mr. Perker ( Police Magistrate Fang ( Vincent Crummles ( W. T. Moncri... -- Chapter 15 Letter-Writing ( Epistolatory Mendicants ( A Note from Yorkshire ( Mr. Ewart ( A Slow Binder ( Master Humphrey's "Works" - Talfourd's Post-Prandial Reading ( Letters to Talfourd, Frank Stone, and Mackenzie ( Mammoth Journals ( The Moon Hoax ( Lord Nug... -- Chapter 16 -- Poetry in Prose - Thackeray's Opinion ( Rythmical Language ( Examples from Southey, Shelley, and Dickens ( Little Nell's Funeral ( Lesson of Death to Life - Smike's Grave-Stone ( Niagara ( Hymn of the Laborers ( A Word in Season -- Chapter 17 -- Little Dorrit ( The Circumlocution Office ( Hard Times ( Tale of Two Cities ( Great Expectations ( New Christmas Stories- Our Mutual Friend ( Amende to the Jews ( Systematic Business Habits ( Dealings with American Publishers -- Chapter 18 -- Charles Dickens's Names ( Odd Names ( Futility of Personal Argument ( Retort on Lockhart ( Making Friends ( Mr. Ree-Ack ( Lord Campbell ( Temperate Habits ( Undervaluing Shakespeare - Wordsworth and Dickens ( Philadelphia Streets ( Personal Tastes ( P... -- Chapter 19 -- Fondness for Theatricals ( Amateur Acting ( Lord Lytton's Play ( Queen Victoria ( Wilkie Collins's Plays ( Captain Bobadil ( Hans Christian Andersen at Gad's Hill ( Jerrold Memorial ( Public Readings ( Second Visit to America -- Chapter 20 -- Second Visit to America ( Rationale of His Readings ( Reception at Boston ( Effects of Thought and Time - Dramatic Power ( Long Walks ( List of Selections - Correspondence ( Last Readings in Boston and New York ( Press Banquet at Delmonico's ( Last Wo... -- Chapter 21 -- Return to England ( In Harness ( A New Reading ( Dinner at Liverpool ( Dangerous Illness ( Grave-Side Speech-Making ( Gad's Hill House ( Miss Clarke at Tavistock House ( Hans Christian Andersen ( Franklin Philp ( Habits of Work ( Long Walks ( M. Fecht... -- Chapter 22 Farewell Readings ( Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Visits Queen Victoria ( Honors Declined ( Speech at Royal Academy ( Ill Health ( The Last Week ( Closing Correspondence ( His Christian Belief and Hope ( Apoplexy ( Death ( Grief from Throne to Cottage ( Bu... -- Chapter 23 -- Purity of His Writings ( Variety of Subjects and Characters ( Absence of Egotism and Cynicism ( Compared with Thackeray ( Will His Writings Live? ( His Domestic Life ( His Broad Christianity ( The Caiaphas of Plymouth Church ( Tributes from the Pulpit... -- Uncollected Pieces by Charles Dickens -- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright -- (Janus Weathercock), The Poisoner -- Aboard Ship -- A Small Star in the East -- A Little Dinner in an Hour -- Mr. Barlow -- On an Amateur Beat -- A Fly-Leaf in a Life -- A Plea for Total Abstinence -- Full Report -- Of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Full Report -- Of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Thackeray - In Memoriam -- The Will of Charles Dickens -- The Dickens Controversy -- From the Publishers' Circular of June 1st, 1867. -- Index -- Blank Page
