His six-month trip bore literary fruit: the controversial and unflattering American Notes (1842) and the slyly devastating American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). ... He published Pictures from Italy (1846), Dombey and Son (1848), and his 'favourite child,' David Copperfield (1850). ...
He replied with sharp criticism of America in American Notes (1842) and the novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843). ... Dombey and Son (1848) was the first in a string of triumphant novels including David Copperfield (1850), his own favorite novel, which was partly autobiographical; Bleak House (1853); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1857); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); Great Expectations (1861); and Our Mutual Friend (1865). ...
Later, Charles described his youth in the novel David Copperfield with little change from what had occurred in his own life. ... Dickens also excels in the short but evocative description of places; in Hard Times note the portrayal of the murky streets and factories of Coketown and of its blighted wasteland-like countryside. ... Phrases like "...but as the Artful drew forth the five-pound note at that instant, it is doubtful whether the sally... awakened his merriment" (Dickens, Oliver Twist 163) were common in reading his works. ...
Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. Charles was born at Landport, in Portsea, England, February 7, 1812, He was the second of eight children. Dickens's father was employed as a minor civil servant in the Naval Pay Office, a job that required the family to move a number of times. Dickens" family spent many of Charles's early years fairly pleasantly in Chatham but made their final move to a miserable part of London. ...
When we first meet Holden, he says, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you"ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth" (Salinger 3). ... When he gets there, he watches her sleep and notes that adults " look lousy when they"re asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. ...
