Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
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Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
alive bless christmas god knew man possessed tim tiny truly
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
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Can I unmoved see thee dying/ On a log,/ Expiring frog!
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At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.
affection cheerful friends-or-friendship great heaven last merry
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
left neglected quite school solitary
The school is not quite deserted, said the Ghost. ""A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.
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Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!
blood liquid regular
I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood
christmas honor
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
absence business gone horse planet
In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.
christmas course missed spirits
It's Christmas Day! said Scrooge to himself. ""I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
boarding forever great holiday home ought school short
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and giv
business rule true
Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.