A tale of ruin, murder, love and redemption in London's underworld.
Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors' prison. Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity America as well as Britain. He separated from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
"An unforgettable journey into criminal behaviour that takes me
back to my own childhood fantasies"
*Malcolm McLaren*
"The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once
becomes his captive"
*William Makepeace Thackeray*
"Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's
immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social
satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer
- or any combination of these"
*Susannah Clarke*
"The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost
seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the
possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always
compelling"
*Guardian*
"We leave him most reluctantly, and so will every reader who has
any capacity to see and feel whatsoever is most loveable, hateful,
or laughable, in the character of the everyday life about him"
*Examiner*
"An unforgettable journey into criminal behaviour that takes me
back to my own childhood fantasies" -- Malcolm McLaren
"The power of [Dickens] is so amazing, that the reader at once
becomes his captive" -- William Makepeace Thackeray
"Dickens is huge - like the sky. Pick any page of Dickens and it's
immediately recognizable as him, yet he might be doing social
satire, or farce, or horror, or a psychological study of a murderer
- or any combination of these" -- Susannah Clarke
"The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost
seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the
possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always
compelling" * Guardian *
"We leave him most reluctantly, and so will every reader who has
any capacity to see and feel whatsoever is most loveable, hateful,
or laughable, in the character of the everyday life about him" *
Examiner *
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