![]() ![]() His first book Sketches by Boz appeared in 1936 followed by The Pickwick Papers. Such experiences became the subject of his novels and have been immortalized in his fiction.Ĭharles became a reporter in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons due to his great speed and accuracy in shorthand. This was the first raw impact of life on a sensitive boy who had lived in a world of dreams. He had to work in the dirty, rat-infested old house, sticking labels on blacking bottles. Charles had to work in Warren’s Blacking factory owned by a relative. As a boy he was able to visit the theatre, to buy books and began to have dreams of acquiring education.īut things changed as his father got hopelessly into depth and was arrested in February 1824. On promotion, his father moved to Chatham, when Dickens was three years old. ![]() About the Author:Ĭharles Dickens was born on 7th February, 1812 at Portsea, near Portsmouth, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay office. Please read on for this blog’s first book review. And as must be obvious by now, The Pickwick Papers is what shall be reviewing today. Though written in the often flowery and intricately descriptive style of Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers is a heartily humorous narrative about the society of those times. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is arguably one of the best comic novels of all times. ![]()
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