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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 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)
The Seven Poor Travellers 

The Seven Poor Travellers 

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"Charles Dickens" here means editor as well as author. This is the fifth Christmas number, from 1854, of his journal Household Words. Dickens himself tops and tails the festive story cycle, set after an archetypal Christmas Eve dinner ("I never saw a finer turkey, finer beef") in a Rochester almshouse. The "travellers" are voiced in their narrations by Wilkie Collins (who contributes a...
The Uncommercial Traveller

The Uncommercial Traveller

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The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

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The Wreck of the Golden Mary is the work of many hands but was originally started by Dickens. The story portrays an amazing voyage around Cape Horn, then north to the coast of California. The tale takes a stunning turn when the ship strikes an iceberg and passengers and crew languish in lifeboats. Dickens’s subtlety of style and picturesque depiction keeps reader rapt till the very...
Three Ghost Stories

Three Ghost Stories

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While the three ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was Charles Dickens' most famous apparitions, his interest in the supernatural did not end there. Three Ghost Stories is just that: a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Signal Man, The Haunted House and The Trial for Murder were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well,...
Tom Tiddler's Ground 

Tom Tiddler's Ground 

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Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a...
A Child's Dream of a Star

A Child's Dream of a Star

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Dickens told one of his biographers that as a child he used to wander at night about a churchyard, near their home, with his sister. This sister died only two years before this poetic fantasy was written. Perhaps it was the sincerity of his grief for this lost sister which keeps this story as simple as it is in its sentiment. It is a fable, a lovely apologue, slight in substance and yet adequate...
A Child's History of England 

A Child's History of England 

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A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on December 20, 1851; the second, December 25, 1852; and the third, December 24, 1853. Although the volumes were published in December, each was postdated...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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

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