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    Charles Dickens - On London: "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
    Charles Dickens - On London: "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
    Charles Dickens - On London: "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
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    Charles Dickens - On London: "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

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    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the stories Charles Dickens wrote about London, A City of Empire and ambition with a dark underside. Dickens is a name that dominates the landscape of English novelists. His works are masterpieces and he is held everywhere in the highest regard. In his fairly short life of 58 years he accomplished an extraordinary number of classic novels, especially in light of his humble and poor beginnings. Here in this collection of stories his hand and mind are everywhere within their short length proving once again that Dickens could master almost any form of writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateOct 11, 2013
    ISBN9781780004426
    Charles Dickens - On London: "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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