"London. His publications include: He also wrote the introductions to many posthumous reprints of his father's books, such as ""Barnaby Rudge"", ""Oliver Twist"", ""Bleak House"", and ""Little Dorrit"", providing biographical and bibliographical insights. His ""Reminiscences of My Father"" was published posthumously in 1934. ""Dickens's Dictionary of London: An Unconventional Handbook"" is the main book of Charles Dickens Jr. It was first published in London in 1879, by ""Charles Dickens and Evans"" (Dickens Jr. and his father-in-law, publisher Frederick Evans). The book was then updated and reprinted every year until the author's death, from 1880 (second year) to the final 1896–1897"
"David Copperfield David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey from being an"
"of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (""Phiz""), with the last being a double-number: ""David Copperfield"" has been filmed on several occasions: Online editions Adaptations David Copperfield David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of"
"Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism, often a type of proverb. In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on"
"""The Pickwick Papers"" (1836–1837), ""David Copperfield"" (1849–1850), and most extensively in ""Little Dorrit"" (1855–1857), whose main character, Amy, is born in the Marshalsea. Trey Philpotts writes that every detail about the Marshalsea in ""Little Dorrit"" reflects the real prison of the 1820s. According to Philpotts, Dickens rarely made mistakes and did not exaggerate; if anything, he downplayed the licentiousness of Marshalsea life, perhaps to protect Victorian sensibilities. Like the first Marshalsea, the second was notoriously cramped. In 1827, 414 out of its 630 debtors were there for debts under £20; 1,890 people in Southwark were imprisoned that year for a"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"as a personal servant and companion on his travels. The relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism,"
"Copperfield"", Charles Dickens describes how its protagonist dealt with a street carman about taking his travel box to a coach office in London: ""I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence"", then he replying: ""Done with you for a tanner!"" The sixpence also features in other works of popular culture and literature. It appears in the title of the British writer Somerset Maughan's 1919 novel, ""The Moon and Sixpence,"" and appears in both the title and as a plot device in Michael Paraskos's novel"
"later novels also centre on idealised characters (Esther Summerson in ""Bleak House"" and Amy Dorrit in ""Little Dorrit""), this idealism serves only to highlight Dickens's goal of poignant social commentary. Dickens's fiction, reflecting what he believed to be true of his own life, makes frequent use of coincidence, either for comic effect or to emphasise the idea of providence. For example, Oliver Twist turns out to be the lost nephew of the upper-class family that rescues him from the dangers of the pickpocket group. Such coincidences are a staple of 18th-century picaresque novels, such as Henry Fielding's ""Tom Jones,"" which"
"Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. ""La Guinguette a deux sous"", ""the Tuppenny Bar"") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. While visiting a condemned man in prison, he comments to Maigret that he knows someone at a """"guinguette a deux sous"""" (a ""tuppenny bar"") who is equally deserving of the death penalty. Lenoir further reveals that he and an accomplice had witnessed a man whom they knew from the bar take a body and dump it in the Canal Saint-Martin. Maigret is unable to find this tuppenny bar,"
"Time Out of Joint Time Out of Joint is a dystopian novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in novel form in the United States in 1959. An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine ""New Worlds Science Fiction"" in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960. The novel epitomizes many of Dick's themes with its concerns about the nature of reality and ordinary people in ordinary lives having the world unravel around them. The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's"
"Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" (1894), and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"" (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"", ""Schoolhouse Hill"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"" has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a boy of about"
"autumn of 1851, Charles Dickens obtained the lease on Tavistock House from his friend and fellow Shakespeare Society member, the artist Frank Stone. In 1851 Dickens, with his young family, moved into the western section of the by now divided Tavistock House. His first published story, ""A Dinner at Poplar Walk"" (1833) (later re-titled ""Mr. Minns and His Cousin"") is set in Tavistock House. Dickens wrote ""Bleak House"" (1852-3), ""Hard Times"" (1854), ""Little Dorrit"" (1855-7), and ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859) at Tavistock House. He also put on amateur theatricals there which are described in John Forster's ""Life of"
"Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to honor a debt. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as ""Sam,"" is holed up in a cheap apartment, hard at work at his typewriter each day. He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits. One day, a friend and mentor from his Pinkerton days, Jimmy Ryan, turns up with a request, that Hammett help him track"
"to be Steerforth; his death brings grief and shock to both his mother and Miss Dartle. At this point Miss Dartle confesses that she had always loved Steerforth and desired to be his wife; she angrily blames Steerforth's associates (including his mother) for having corrupted him and led him to his demise. James Steerforth James Steerforth is a character in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. He is a handsome young man noted for his wit and romantic charm. Though he is well liked by his friends, he proves himself to be lacking in consideration for others. David Copperfield"
"Little Dorrit Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned."
"James Steerforth James Steerforth is a character in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. He is a handsome young man noted for his wit and romantic charm. Though he is well liked by his friends, he proves himself to be lacking in consideration for others. David Copperfield first meets James Steerforth as a boy attending Salem House boarding school. He is a few years older than David, and is first seen when dealing with a group of younger boys who are taunting David about biting his stepfather. David quickly comes to admire and respect him, as the other boys"
"has been translated twice into English: In 1940, by Geoffrey Sainsbury (and reprinted variously as ""Maigret to the Rescue"", ""A Spot by the Seine"", and ""Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine"") and in 2003 by David Watson as ""The Bar on the Seine"" (reprinted in 2015 as ""The Two-Penny Bar""). The story has been dramatized twice; in 1962 as ""The Wedding Guest"" (with Rupert Davies in the main role), and in 1975 as ""La Guinguette a deux sous"" (Jean Richard). Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. ""La Guinguette a deux sous"", ""the Tuppenny Bar"") is a"
"1897, and another collection of short stories, ""Sea Urchins"" (1898) set the seal on his popularity. Among his other titles are ""Captains All"", ""Sailors' Knots"", and ""Night Watches"". The title of the last reflects the popularity of perhaps his most enduring character: the night-watchman on the wharf in Wapping, recounting the preposterous adventures of his acquaintances Ginger Dick, Sam Small, and Peter Russet. These three characters, pockets full after a long voyage, would take lodgings together determined to enjoy a long spell ashore; but the crafty inhabitants of dockland London would soon relieve them of their funds, assisted by the"
"Wilkins Micawber Wilkins Micawber is a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that ""something will turn up."" Micawber was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands. His long-suffering wife, Emma, stands by him despite his financial exigencies that force her to pawn all of her family's heirlooms. She lives by the maxims, ""I will never desert Mr. Micawber!"" and ""Experientia does it!"" (from ""Experientia docet"", ""One learns by experience."") Micawber is hired as a clerk by the scheming Uriah Heep, who assumes"
"sometimes called upon to impersonate the Scarecrow when Syn either had to be elsewhere or seen in the same place.). Shortly after the first appearances of the Scarecrow, Nicholas Tappitt (using the name ""Colonel Delacourt"") and the ailing Imogene returned to England, ending up in Dymchurch. Recognizing Syn as Clegg, Tappitt realized that Syn and the Scarecrow were the same and helped the authorities set a trap for him, hoping to both rid himself of his enemy and claim the reward for his capture. The trap was sprung, but Squire Cobtree's daughter Charlotte, who had fallen in love with Syn"
"it as part of the fare at a ball in ""Mansfield Park."" In ""Wuthering Heights"" by Emily Brontë, Catherine is given it at Thrushcross Grange by the Lintons; it appears in several works by Charles Dickens, namely ""Sketches by Boz"", ""The Pickwick Papers"", ""A Christmas Carol"" (during the party at Fezziwig's), ""Dombey and Son"", ""David Copperfield"" and ""Bleak House""; in Harriette Wilson's ""Memoirs"" and Grace Dalrymple Elliott's ""Journal of My Life During the French Revolution""; and in John Buchan's ""Midwinter"". Anthony Trollope in ""The Small House at Allington"" portrays the rustic Earl de Guest's violent disgust at the thought of"
"to Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick and company. In chapter four of ""Cordelia Underwood"", Cordelia finds a copy of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in her uncle's trunk. Author Van Reid says that the names of the characters Ephram, Eagleton and Thump were chosen to evoke the sound of a heavy object falling downstairs. The name Tobias was consciously borrowed from the character of Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne’s ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman""; Walton from Izaak Walton, author of ""The Compleat Angler"". Ephram, Eagleton, and Thump adhere to different political parties, go to separate churches, subscribe to different newspapers,"
"There is also one in Palmyra, the county seat, which is located more in the center of the county. This is the principal city of the Hannibal, Missouri micropolitan area, which consists of both Marion and Ralls counties. The site of Hannibal was long occupied by various cultures of indigenous Native American tribes. The river community is best known as the 19th-century boyhood home of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain). The settings of Twain's novels ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" are inspired by this town. Numerous historical sites are associated with Mark Twain"
"and the plight of the poor and oppressed. His most important works include ""Oliver Twist"" (1837–39), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (183839)"", A Christmas Carol"" (1843), ""Dombey and Son"" (1846–48), ""David Copperfield"" (184950), ""Bleak House"" (185253), ""Little Dorrit"" (185557), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1859), and ""Great Expectations"" (186061). There is a gradual trend in his fiction towards darker themes which mirrors a tendency in much of the writing of the 19th century. William Thackeray was Dickens' great rival in the first half of Queen Victoria's reign. With a similar style but a slightly more detached, acerbic and barbed satirical view of his"
"for a number of memorable quotations: Wilkins Micawber Wilkins Micawber is a clerk in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"". He is traditionally identified with the optimistic belief that ""something will turn up."" Micawber was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands. His long-suffering wife, Emma, stands by him despite his financial exigencies that force her to pawn all of her family's heirlooms. She lives by the maxims, ""I will never desert Mr. Micawber!"" and ""Experientia does it!"" (from ""Experientia docet"", ""One learns by experience."") Micawber is hired as a clerk by"
"Georgina Hogarth, both of whom were very close to Dickens. Mary died at the age of 17 in 1837 and Georgina, since 1842, lived with the Dickens family. Dickens referred to her affectionately as his ""little housekeeper"". After Dickens' separation from his wife Catherine, Georgina stayed with him for the rest of his life and took the responsibility of managing his household completely. Agnes Wickfield Agnes Wickfield is a character of ""David Copperfield"", a novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end"
"John Dickens John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's semi-autobiographical novel ""David Copperfield"". The son of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824), John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth in Hampshire. On 13 June 1809 at St Mary le Strand, London, he married Elizabeth Barrow, with whom he had eight children. He was later transferred to London and then to Chatham, returning to live in Camden Town in London in 1822 to work"
"Pinch from ""Martin Chuzzlewit""; Lilian, the child who appears in Trotty Veck's visions in ""The Chimes""; and Dot Peerybingle, the sister in ""The Cricket on the Hearth"". Unlike Hogarth, Dickens' wife Catherine does not appear to have been the inspiration for any of his characters. Mary Hogarth Mary Scott Hogarth (26 October 1819 – 7 May 1837) was the sister of Catherine Dickens ( Hogarth) and the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. Hogarth first met Charles Dickens aged 14, and after Dickens married Hogarth's sister Catherine, Mary lived with the couple for a year. Hogarth died suddenly in 1837, which caused"
"Redgauntlet Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as ""in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels."" It describes the beginnings of a fictional ""third"" Jacobite Rebellion, and includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale"", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer. Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. Darsie's friend Alan Fairford sets out to rescue him. After"
"impoverished, neglected child to a successful author. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own life, and it is often considered his veiled autobiography. It was Dickens' favourite among his own novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, ""like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."" Like some of his other novels, it contains descriptions of child exploitation and abuse, some based both on his own childhood experiences, and other published reports. The story follows the life of David Copperfield from childhood to"
"Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the"
"close personal friend of J.M. Barrie, and so probably knew Michael Llewelyn Davies. It is also mentioned in ""The Dictionary of the Thames"" by Charles Dickens, Jr.. It is notorious to all rowing men and habitue's of the river that Sandford Lasher has almost yearly demanded its tale of victims and it is almost inconceivable that people will continue year after year to tempt fate in this and other equally dangerous places In Tom Brown at Oxford, by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861, the eponymous, principal character has a narrow escape after accidentally rowing a skiff over the weir"