Tác giả: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

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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)

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A Child's Dream of a Star

Charles Dickens

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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

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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...

A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. The book was written...

A House to Let

Charles Dickens , Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter

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A House to Let is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Wilkie wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending, while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder. A House to Let was the first collaboration...

A Message From The Sea

Charles Dickens , Wilkie Collins

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A Message from the Sea was a short story by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the Year Round.

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...

American Notes

Charles Dickens

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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...

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.

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty

Charles Dickens

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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...

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....

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

Chuyện Vặt Ông Pickwick

Charles Dickens

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Chuyện Vặt Ông Pickwick là một tập hợp gồm nhiều truyện ngắn hài hước. Chuyện Vặt Ông Pickwick không hẳn là một tiểu thuyết nhưng lại có đầy đủ các nhân vật: ông Pickwick tốt bụng và chất phác, người đầy tớ Sam Weller…

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

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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...

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...

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.

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.

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

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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...

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?"

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...

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...

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