In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all each week,
and you tell me in only three words, what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Charles Dickens
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Novelist, journalist, critic.
ReplyDeleteAstounding, vivid writer
ReplyDeleteRead It All
ReplyDeleteCelebrated Victorian novelist
ReplyDeleteKinda wordy, no?
ReplyDeleteOur Mutual Friend. Jx
ReplyDeleteVolumes of immortality
ReplyDeleteJon
Ghosts of Christmases
ReplyDeleteHe wrote serials!
ReplyDeleteNot novels as some think. Each chapter was published individually, in a periodical, several days apart!
Actually a novelist, but his works were indeed published as serials in periodicals so as to reach a wider audience at a lower price point. After the serials ran out, his writings were published as novels, the books we read today.
DeleteA Wonderful Writer
ReplyDeleteBest of times
ReplyDeleteWorst of times
"A Christmas Carol"
ReplyDeleteYe Olde England
ReplyDeleteNever read him
ReplyDeleteWordy, engrossing genius.
ReplyDeleteThe Pickwick Papers.
ReplyDeleteQuintessential Victorian author
ReplyDeleteColorful, detailed storytelling
ReplyDeleteProlific, Satirical, and Conscious.
ReplyDeleteI commend him. Dickens used his platform to highlight poverty, inequality, and cruel institutions, becoming a powerful voice for social reform.
Baltimore's Finest Contribution.
ReplyDeleteHe was born in Portsmouth, and brought up in Kent and London... Jx
DeleteNasty piece of work.
ReplyDeleteDickens did a lot to publicise the lot of the poor. He worked in a factory age 14 when his father's business went belly up. He treated his wife like dirt, presumably she didn't live up to the heroines in his books, 99% of whom were pretty dinglebrains.
HuntleyBiGuy:
ReplyDeleteQuoth rage raven…
A great storyteller
ReplyDeleteDemanding, Difficult prolific.
ReplyDeleteMY. FAVORITE. AUTHOR.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my favourite books are "Our Mutual Friend" and "Bleak House".
DeleteI think there's some confusing here of Dickens with Edgar Allen Poe, as the latter is from Baltimore as well as the writer of "The Raven".
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I am not the only one who noticed this... Jx
DeleteAdulterer, Racist, sexist
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