101. Charles Dickens @ Catharton Authors Charles Dickens. aka Boz. 1812 1870. Dickens is probably the bestknown and most popular of British 19th century novelists. This http://www.catharton.com/authors/20.htm

US sales in association with: UK sales in association with: Canadian sales in association with: Second hand sales in association with: all of Catharton just Authors Catharton Authors D : Dickens, Charles Charles Dickens aka Boz Dickens is probably the best known and most popular of British 19th century novelists. This is due not only to the quality of his writing in itself but also to the widespread adaptation of his work for the stage and the screen, something already foreshadowed by Dickens' own highly successful second career as a public performer in recitals of readings from his own work, an activity that took him all over Britain and North America. After a stormy childhood produced by his father's financial misadventures he began his writing career as a journalist and was a leading reporter of parliamentary debates but he soon achieved success also as a writer of short sketches and humorous short stories. Some of these were incorporated into later collections such as Sketches by Boz ( his pseudonym ) and The Pickwick Papers and their popularity and that of the many colourful, comic characters appearing in later novels have given him a wide reputation as a comic or, at least, a light-hearted writer. It has even been suggested that early books such as A Christmas Carol with its ghosts, family jollifications and its pantomime defeat of evil miserliness by goodwill, was a major factor in creating the modern English Christmas which is usually far more lavishly celebrated than in many other parts of Europe including Scotland.

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