First aired in 1990 but only now available on CD, NPR's presentation serves to place the familiar story back in its... Charles Dickens, Author, Lisbeth Zwerger, Illustrator Picture Book Studio Ltd ...

Sketches by Boz was Dickens' first book, collecting sketches and tales he had published in various magazines between 1833 and 1836. The first series, illustrated by George Cruikshank, was published in ...

Fortunately, much of Charles Dickens’s ... to recreate the author’s first family home. The museum offers an insight into the very early life of Dickens, as well as the 19th-century Portsmouth ...

John Dickens’ salary as a clerk didn ... sure that something will turn up Antique book of Charles Dickens the Christmas Stories 2. His first job was labelling bottles. The family’s money ...

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according to Dickens bibliographer John Eckel, "nearly the entire first edition [of 1000 copies] was bought up by the libraries." These were lending libraries, which charged a fee for those who wished ...

It's thought that in his books Dickens played down many of its horrors for fear of upsetting the Victorian constitution. After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was ...