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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)
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 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 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...
Sketches of Young Gentlemen

Sketches of Young Gentlemen

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Two collections of rarely published early sketches by Dickens, one about Young Gentleman (including items like The Bashful Young Gentleman, The Military Young Gentleman and The Theatrical Young Gentleman) and one about (mostly) young couples (including items like The Young Couple, The Loving Couple and The Old Couple). The sketches are short with occasional illustrations and combine humor,...
Sketches of Young Couples

Sketches of Young Couples

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This is a collection of short "stories", describing different types of young couples. As always, Dickens' scatterings of humour help make it an enjoyable read. It's mainly an exercise in characterisation, but each little chapter reads like a story, or part of a story. This book would be a useful tool to someone wanting to learn how to write. It may have been written quite some time ago, but human...
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published byRichard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naïvely...
No Thoroughfare

No Thoroughfare

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No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867. In 1867 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins collaborated to produce a stage play titled No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts. This was the last stage production to be associated with Dickens, who died in June 1870. The play opened at the Adelphi Theatre on 26 December 1867. The novel...
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

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Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as aserial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel. The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies. Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in...
Mugby Junction

Mugby Junction

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Mugby Junction is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere," who has spent his life cloistered in the...
Mudfog and Other Sketches

Mudfog and Other Sketches

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The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional “The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything”, a Pickwickian...
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings

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Mrs Lirriper is an involving story of people thrown together by chance, that moves from the squalors of Victorian London to the sunnier climes of southern France. Recently widowed, Mrs. Lirriper devotes her energies to attending to the needs of her assorted lodgers; but when a newborn child is abandoned to her care, her responsibilities grow to new levels. She enlists longtime lodger, the Major,...
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...
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
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...
Somebody's Luggage

Somebody's Luggage

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Reprinted in its entirety for the first time since its original publication in 1862, Somebody's Luggage is a rediscovered gem from Dickens's later life. Stumbling upon some luggage that has been left behind in the hotel where he works, a waiter searches through it to identify its owner. He fails to discover this, but he does find, secreted away in different parts of the luggage, quite a number...
Some Christmas Stories 

Some Christmas Stories 

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This book content includes: A Christmas Tree What Christmas is as we Grow Older The Poor Relation's Story The Child's Story The Schoolboy's Story Nobody's Story
Reprinted Pieces 

Reprinted Pieces 

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There was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water.

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