Best Ghost Stories (English, Paperback, Charles Dickens)
Book Details
Publication Year: 2017
Number of Pages: 350
Contributors
Author Info: 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. His works enjoyed immense popularity during his lifetime. The critics and scholars recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison. Notwithstanding his lack of formal education, Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, numerous short stories and non-fiction articles. Dickens’s literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. He became an international literary celebrity within a few years and achieved fame for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and contemporary society.
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