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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)
Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life", but is also about human values. In the opening chapters a body is found in theThames...
Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866) 

Dick and Fitzgerald Catalog (1866) 

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Written in a plain and popular manner, and illustrated with explanatory wood-cuts. Being a comprehensive Book of Reference for the Merchant, Manufacturer, Artisan, Amateur and Housekeeper, embracing valuable information in the Arts, Professions, Trades, Manufactures, including Medicine, Pharmacy and Domestic Economy. It is certainly the most useful book of reference for practical information...
Pictures from Italy

Pictures from Italy

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Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator." In 1844, Dickens took a respite from writing novels and for several months traveled through France and Italy with his...
Miscellaneous Papers

Miscellaneous Papers

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This book content includes: The Agricultural Interest Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman Crime and Education Capital Punishment The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall In Memoriam - W. M. Thackeray Adelaide Anne Procter Chauncey Hare Townshend On Mr. Fechter's Acting
Master Humphrey's Clock

Master Humphrey's Clock

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Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from April 4, 1840 to December 4, 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included, followed by the novels The Old...
Martin Chuzzlewit 

Martin Chuzzlewit 

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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised in 1843 and 1844. Dickens thought it to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. Like nearly all of Dickens' novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly instalments....
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

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Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens's ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons, in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is...
Hard Times

Hard Times

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Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times. Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly...
Going into Society

Going into Society

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Going into Society is Dickens's story of a man who sets up a circus in a respectable neighborhood. The main attraction is a dwarf: "He was a un-common small man, he really was. Certainly not so small as he was made out to be, but where IS your Dwarf as is?"
Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son

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Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before returning to England, via Paris, to complete it. Illustrations were provided by Hablot Knight...
Doctor Marigold

Doctor Marigold

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Doctor Marigold, named for the man who delivered him, is a "cheap-jack" who hawks sundries from a traveling cart. His lonely fortunes reverse when he adopts a deaf and mute girl whose mother is dead and whose stepfather, owner of a traveling circus, beats her.
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read

Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read

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This collection of excerpts from Dickens' novels, first published in 1909, includes: Trotty Veck and Meg, Tiny Tim, The Runaway Couple, Little Dorritt, The Toy-Maker and His Blind Daughter, Little Nell, Little David Copperfield, Jenny Wren, Pip's Adventure, Todgers, Dick Sweviller and the Marchioness, Mr. Wadle's Servant Joe, and The Bravve and Honest Boy Oliver Twist.
David Copperfield

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...
Charles Dickens' Children Stories 

Charles Dickens' Children Stories 

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This book contains 12 children stories of Charles Dickens that includes: Trotty Veck and his daughter Meg Tiny Tim Little Dombey The runaway couple Poor Jo! The little Kenwigs Little Dorrit The blind toy-maker Little Nell Little David Cooperfield Jenny Wren Pip’s adventure
Bleak House

Bleak House

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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator....
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty

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Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock. Barnaby Rudge is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby Rudge was the...
Bardell v. Pickwick

Bardell v. Pickwick

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The first complete abstracting of this trial since publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, this adaptation includes the origin of the case, Pickwick's dealings with his solicitor and Mrs. Bardell's firm of Dodson and Fogg, the aftermath of the trial, debtor's prison, and the denouement. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
American Notes 

American Notes 

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American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Whilst there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His...
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With wellover 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality...

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