Sounded ID: 9781998246748
ISBN: 9781998246748
Publication Date: November 30, 2023
Publisher: Author's Republic
Language: English
Author Name: Sir Frank T. Marzials
Narrator Name: The Lantern
Charles Dickens lived a very intense life. He was born in Landport, near Portsea in the south of England, in 1812.
His family was a large one. The boy was twelve when he was withdrawn from school, in 1824, and sent to work in a shoe-blacking factory in London for a few months to help his father, imprisoned for debts. This unpleasant experience was never forgotten and marked the beginning of Dickens's social commitment and identification with the poor and the oppressed, which are constantly present in his fiction.
At the age of sixteen Charles Dickens was apprenticed in an attorney's ...
Charles Dickens lived a very intense life. He was born in Landport, near Portsea in the south of England, in 1812.
His family was a large one. The boy was twelve when he was withdrawn from school, in 1824, and sent to work in a shoe-blacking factory in London for a few months to help his father, imprisoned for debts. This unpleasant experience was never forgotten and marked the beginning of Dickens's social commitment and identification with the poor and the oppressed, which are constantly present in his fiction.
At the age of sixteen Charles Dickens was apprenticed in an attorney's office to study law, but soon gave up and learned shorthand to become a reporter in the courts of law. These experiences provided the material for the description of lawyers and their world in many of his novels.
He was only twenty-one when his first fictional work, Sketches by Boz (1836), appeared in instalments and had an enthusiastic reception from both critics and pub1ic. The publication of Pickwick Papers (1836-7) increased Charles Dickens' popularity and brought in handsome profits, which enabled him to marry.
A frantic career as a novelist developed which was to continue all his life and which Dickens managed to combine with several other activities.
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1. | Intro - Life of Dickens |
0 mins 15 secs |
2. | Chapter 1 - Life of Dickens |
39 mins 49 secs |
3. | Chapter 2 - Life of Dickens |
22 mins 32 secs |
4. | Chapter 3 - Life of Dickens |
15 mins 01 secs |
5. | Chapter 4 - Life of Dickens |
11 mins 50 secs |
6. | Chapter 5 - Life of Dickens |
22 mins 59 secs |
7. | Chapter 6 - Life of Dickens |
21 mins 24 secs |
8. | Chapter 7 - Life of Dickens |
14 mins 22 secs |
9. | Chapter 8 - Life of Dickens |
14 mins 59 secs |
10. | Chapter 9 - Life of Dickens |
31 mins 49 secs |
11. | Chapter 10 - Life of Dickens |
8 mins 27 secs |
12. | Chapter 11 - Life of Dickens |
20 mins 56 secs |
13. | Chapter 12 - Life of Dickens |
16 mins 42 secs |
14. | Chapter 13 - Life of Dickens |
41 mins 29 secs |
15. | Outro - Life of Dickens |
0 mins 23 secs |
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