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Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affe… More...

Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking warehouse. This painful period inspired much of his fiction. Then he worked as an office boy, studied shorthand and became reporter of debates in the Commons for the "Morning Chronicle", collaborating later with other newspapers. These attracted much attenti Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking warehouse. This painful period inspired much of his fiction. Then he worked as an office boy, studied shorthand and became reporter of debates in the Commons for the "Morning Chronicle", collaborating later with other newspapers. These attracted much attention and led to an approach from Chapman and Hall which resulted in the creation of Mr. Pickwick, and the publication in twenty monthly numbers of "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club". Dickens captured the popular imagination as no other novelist had done and was admired by contemporaries as varied as Queen Victoria and Dostoevsky. Later criticism has tended to praise the complexity of the sombre late works at the expense of the high spirited humour and genius for caricature. "Great Expectations" (1861). Philip Pirrip, the narrator, a village boy brought up by his sister, the wife of the gentle, kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. He is introduced to the house of Miss Havisham who has brought up the girl Estella to use her beauty as means of torturing men. Pirrip falls in love with Estella. Money comes to him from a mysterious source and he aspires to become a gentleman, but the situation will be complicated in an unexpected way. Classics, Fiction & Literature, Great expectations~~ charles Dickens~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230000423328, en, Great expectations, charles Dickens, 1230000423328, guido montelupo, 05/12/2015, , , , guido montelupo, 05/12/2015<

ISBN: 1230000423328

Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affe… More...

Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking wareh Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking wareh, guido montelupo<

2005, ISBN: 1230000423328

Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affe… More...

Charles John Huffham, DICKENS (1812-1870), son of a clerk in the Navy pays office. His father was imprisoned for debt and this was followed by a period of intense misery which deeply affected him. When he was 12 year old worked in a blacking wareh Classics, Fiction & Literature, Great expectations~~ charles Dickens~~Classics~~Fiction & Literature~~1230000423328, en, Great expectations, charles Dickens, 1230000423328, guido montelupo, 05/12/2015, , , , guido montelupo, 05/12/2015<