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Charles Dickens (7/2/1812 – 9/6/1870)

Tên đầy đủ: Charles John Huffam Dickens

Bút danh: Boz

Ông là một nhà văn vĩ đại của Anh với nhiều tác phẩm kinh điển trong lịch sử văn học thế giới.

Ông là tác giả hiện thực lớn nhất của nước Anh thế kỷ 19. Các tác phẩm của ông chủ yếu dành cho thiếu nhi và mang tính chất hiện thực.

16 tuổi, ông học tốc kí rồi làm thư kí cho tòa án và nghị viện rồi làm phóng viên cho tờ Thời sự buổi sáng. Đây chính là dịp ông nâng cao hiểu biết, tích lũy vốn sống mà nhất là thấy được bộ mặt xấu xa của chính quyền tư sản nước Anh bấy giờ.

Ông bắt đầu sáng tác văn học từ năm 1833 và mau chóng gặt hái được những thành công vang dội. Tên tuổi ông nhanh chóng được biết đến khắp nước Anh và châu Âu.

Năm 1842, ông đã dành nửa năm trời để du lịch bên Mỹ, và trở về với tập Ghi chép về nước Mỹ (1842) để vạch trần chính sách phân biệt chủng tộc, thủ đoạn đê hèn của chính quyền và báo chí Mỹ bấy giờ.

Ông đã từng giữ chức Tổng biên tập tờ tin Tin hàng ngày vào năm 1846 với hi vọng đem lại hạnh phúc và phồn vinh cho mọi người qua các bài viết.

Các tác phẩm được điều chỉnh và dựng thành phim. Có ít nhất 200 tác phẩm điện ảnh và chuơng trình TV dựa trên các tư liệu của ông.

Tác phẩm tiêu biểu

  • The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Cuộc phiêu lưu của ông Pickwick, 1937)
  • The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist, 1839)
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Nicholas Nickleby, 1839)
  • The Old Curiosity Shop (Cửa hàng bán đồ cổ, 1840)
  • Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  • A Christmas Carol (Hồn ma đêm Giáng sinh, 1843)
  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Những cuộc phiêu lưu của Martin Chuzzlewit, 1944)
  • David Copperfield (1850)
  • Bleak House (Ngôi nhà lạnh lẽo, 1853)
  • Hard Times: For These Times (Thời gian khổ, 1854)
  • Little Dorrit (Cô bé Dorrit, 1857)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (Chuyện hai thành phố, 1859)
  • Great Expectations (Ước vọng lớn lao, 1861)
  • Our Mutual Friend (Những người bạn chung, 1865)
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Những điều bí mật của Edwin Drood, tác phẩm ông đang viết dở thì qua đời)
  • Sketches by Boz (Phác thảo của Boz, 1836)
  • The Mudfog Papers (1837)
  • Reprinted pieces (1861)
  • The Uncomercial traveller (1860 - 1869)
Sunday Under Three Heads 

Sunday Under Three Heads 

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Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest English authors of all time. Dickens often used the pen name Boz. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form. Unlike many writers of his time Dickens wrote the entire novel before serializing it. He made frequent use of the cliffhanger to keep the public interested. Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday...
Tales from Dickens

Tales from Dickens

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This book content includes: The old curiousity shop Oliver Twist Barnaby Rudge David Copperfield Great Expectations Nicholas Nickleby Dombey and son The Pickwick papers Little Dorrit Martin Chuzzlewit Our mutual friend A tale of two cities Bleak house Hard times The mystery of Edwin Drood
The Battle of Life

The Battle of Life

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The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. The setting is an English village that stands on the site of an historic battle. Some characters refer to the battle as a metaphor for the struggles of life, hence...
The Cricket on the Hearth

The Cricket on the Hearth

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The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around 17 October 1845 and finished it by 1 December. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 

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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first in the series, A...
The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter

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An interesting short story depicting with satire the cultures of both the lamplighters and the scientifically minded nobleman.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices was co-written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins and features two characters (Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Idle) that are stand-ins for these two. It is told over the course of what was originally five issues of Dickens' journal Household Words and depicts an "idle" (but actually quite frantic) vacation, with long walks/hikes and explorations of inns and other...
The Letters of Charles Dickens  Vol. 1, 1833-1856

The Letters of Charles Dickens  Vol. 1, 1833-1856

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We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of the book having made it impossible to include in its space any letters, or hardly any, besides those addressed to Mr. Forster. As no man ever expressed himself more in his letters...
The Letters of Charles Dickens  Vol. 2, 1857-1870

The Letters of Charles Dickens  Vol. 2, 1857-1870

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We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of the book having made it impossible to include in its space any letters, or hardly any, besides those addressed to Mr. Forster. As no man ever...
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870

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We intend this Collection of Letters to be a Supplement to the "Life of Charles Dickens," by John Forster. That work, perfect and exhaustive as a biography, is only incomplete as regards correspondence; the scheme of the book having made it impossible to include in its space any letters, or hardly any, besides those addressed to Mr. Forster. As no man ever...
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman 

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman 

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In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure all to whom these presents may come, that "I am the original." This affecting legend is given in the...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, the story focuses on Drood's uncle, precentor, choirmaster and opiumaddict, John Jasper, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Drood's fiancée, has...
The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

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The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New...
The Orange Fairy Book

The Orange Fairy Book

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Includes 33 tales from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and various other European traditions: "The Magic Mirror," "The Two Caskets," "The Clever Cat," "The White Slipper," "The Girl-Fish, and more." 58 illustrations.
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

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In response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Dickens advocated genocide against the Indian race writing the allegorical The Perils of Certain English Prisoners. In Perils Dickens describes the "native Sambo", a paradigm of the Indian mutineers, as a "double-dyed traitor, and a most infernal villain" who takes part in a massacre of women and children, in an allusion to the Cawnpore Massacre. 
The Personal History of David Copperfield 

The Personal History of David Copperfield 

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The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty. When he is seven years old his mother marries Edward Murdstone. David is given good reason to dislike his...
The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling installments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz)...
The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens

The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens

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The book content includes: The village coquettes (1836) The lamplighter (1838) The Pickwick papers (1837) The examiner (1841) The Patrician’s daughter (1842) The keepsake (1844) The daily news (1846) Lines addressed to Mark Lemon (1849) The lighthouse (1855) The frozen deep (1856) The wreck of Golden Mary (1856)

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