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Dickens's Apprentice Years : The Making of a Novelist, Paperback / softback Book

Dickens's Apprentice Years : The Making of a Novelist Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Ever since the fifth instalment of the Pickwick Papers in 1836 scholars have expressed amazement at the virtually overnight emergence of the 24-year-old Charles Dickens from an unknown nobody to the literary lion of the day. At one bound he leapt from nowhere to the summit of literary success and fame.

How did he do it? This is the classic modern study of how Dickens staged his grand entrance.

Critics of his day thought he did so without warning or fanfare.

How was it possible for an obscure newspaper reporter to write, in his early twenties, such a brilliant, popular work as Pickwick?

Where did he acquire the nicety of observation, the fineness of tact, the exquisite humour, the wit, heartiness, sympathy with all things good and beautiful in human nature, the perception of character, the pathos, and accuracy of description? This work is a thorough and illuminating study of this central question, and fully illuminates Dickens's early development.

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