Charles Dickens - The Man Behind the Classics

This unique collection of «Charles Dickens – The Man Behind the Classics: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, Memoirs, Letters & Biographies» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.

Contents:

David Copperfield

Sketches by Boz

The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster.

The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain

The Four Sisters

The Election for Beadle

The Broker's Man

The Ladies' Societies

Our Next-door Neighbour

The Streets – morning

The Streets – night

Shops and their Tenants

Scotland Yard

Seven Dials

Meditations in Monmouth-Street

Hackney-coach Stands

Doctors' Commons

London Recreations

The River

Astley's

Greenwich Fair

Private Theatres

Vauxhall Gardens by Day

Early Coaches

Omnibuses

The Last Cab-driver

A Parliamentary Sketch

Public Dinners

The First of May

Brokers' and Marine-store Shops

Gin-shops

The Pawnbroker's Shop

Criminal Courts

A Visit to Newgate

Thoughts about People

A Christmas Dinner

The New Year

Miss Evans and the Eagle

The Parlour Orator

The Hospital Patient

The Misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce

The Mistaken Milliner

The Dancing Academy

Shabby-Genteel People

Making a Night of It

The Prisoners' Van

The Boarding-house

Mr. Minns and his Cousin

Sentiment

The Tuggses at Ramsgate

Horatio Sparkins

The Black Veil

The Steam Excursion

The Great Winglebury Duel

Mrs. Joseph Porter

A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle

The Bloomsbury Christening

The Drunkard's death

Sketches

Sunday Under Three Heads

Reprinted Pieces

The Uncommercial Traveller

American Notes

Pictures From Italy

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Letters

My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Among his greatest works are A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.