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Author: Charles Dickens

About the Author: Charles Dickens was a famous English novelist, considered one of the greatest English novelists of the Victorian era. His style was characterized by harsh criticism of social conditions, as well as a great ability to narrate and detailed depictions of events and characters, and he is the founder of the doctrine of critical realism. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in 1812 AD to an extravagant father who fell into debt and was thrown into prison, and the condition of his family worsened after him. Which prompted the young Dickens to work from an early age as a wage worker sometimes and an employee in the offices of lawyers at other times, and then worked as a journalistic informant writing short excerpts for newspapers and magazines about current personalities and events, as well as working as a political debater in all parts of England. . In his childhood, Dickens was influenced by the writings of the pioneers of English novels. Such as “Henry Fielding”, “Samuel Richardson” and “Daniel Defoe”, so he learned from them the techniques of drawing the fictional character, and the ability to tighten the plot, as he read many other literary classics such as “The Thousand and One Nights” and these “manufactures”, and the texts of these texts. Literary and intellectual imagination of the writer and his creativity, but his journalistic work increased – at the same time – his realism, and this combination enabled him to bring out to us a new type of literary narrative known as critical realism; Where he was accurate in describing reality, adept at portraying the imagination that transcends it and shows its impotence and the contradictions inherent in it. Thanks to these exceptional abilities, Dickens succeeded and made his way to fame since his childhood, which was evident in his first work, “Buckick’s Notes,” which he wrote at the age of twenty-four; This novel achieved great success among the general public and critics alike, and then followed his brilliant works after that, such as: “Oliver Twist” and “David Copperfield”. This novelistic and literary genius made “Karl Marx” describe him as the English writer most capable of revealing the class inequality in his society; Where Dickens’ novels aptly express the sharp social contradictions that existed in Victorian society, especially the struggle of the individual with the tyrannical and corrupt social and moral order. This great writer died in 1870 AD.

American Notes for General Circulation book pdf download By Charles Dickens

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there – curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts and found them exemplary. But Dickens’s opinion of America as a land ruled by money, partly built on slavery, with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners, provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic. American Notes is an illuminating account of a great writer’s revelatory encounter with the New World.

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