American Notes

Dickens, Charles

ISBN 10: 3829053827 / ISBN 13: 9783829053822

Edité par Konemann UK Ltd, Koln, 2000

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2000 first edition, first impression. Size 12mo, 303 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with white titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition fine, not price clipped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: American Notes
• Éditeur: Konemann UK Ltd, Koln
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3829053827
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783829053822
• Reliure: Cloth Bound Boards
• Édition: First Edition, First Impression.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most widely read English writers. Dickens started his writing career as a freelance reporter for the proctors in the Court of Doctors' commons, which later served as a source of information and inspiration for many of his vivid characters and social novels. In 1832, at the age of 20, he became a reporter on The Mirror of Parliament and on The Trues Sun. Dickens reported from the gallery of the House of Commons. He soon moved to larger newspapers which presented him with the opportunity to publish a series of papers. Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers were published in 1836, the year he married Catherine Hogarth with whom he had 10 children and whom he divorced later in life. Dickens wrote relentlessly with his first novels appearing in monthly instalments, a popular fashion at the time: Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841) and Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty as part of the Master Humphrey's Clock series (1840-1841). Numerous other novels followed: David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, and the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Presenting his readers with a plethora of vivid characters, Dickens's novels were a medium for social commentary as he was a fierce critic of poverty and social divisions of the Victorian society. Many of his novels have been adapted for theatre, cinema and television.