Charles Dickens

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Samuel Pickwick Charles Dickens $400 DJ 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF THEIR AUTHORS 2026-03-20 #9525
In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865 Charles Dickens $400 DJ AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS 2024-01-16 #9017
He began "Dombey and Son" during a trip to Switzerland in 1846 Charles Dickens $1,000 J AUTHORS 2021-02-02 #8327
Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House" Dickens $800 J AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS 2018-05-03 #7754
God bless us, every one who reads "The Man Who Invented Christmas", about this author Dickens $800 DJ AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES 2017-12-20 #7658
In 1824 his dad was thrown into debtor's prison; he was withdrawn from school & forced to work in a factory Dickens $2,000 DJ AUTHORS NOT WRITING 2011-12-28 #6278
Wilkins Micawber, Samuel Pickwick, Bob Cratchit Charles Dickens $400 DJ 3 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR 2009-07-08 #5733
This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished Charles Dickens $600 J BRITISH AUTHORS 2007-04-10 #5207
"Dombey and Son","Hard Times","Our Mutual Friend" Charles Dickens $400 J AUTHORS' WORKS 2007-01-10 #5143
At the start of a novel by this author, Dombey is 48 years old & son, 48 minutes Dickens $1,200 DJ AUTHORS 2005-07-05 #4812
At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge" Dickens $600 J AUTHORS 2004-06-04 #4560
Of all his books, he said he liked "David Copperfield" the best Charles Dickens $200 DJ BRITISH AUTHORS 2000-06-08 #3644
His "Pickwick Papers" was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz Charles Dickens $100 J AUTHORS 1999-04-14 #3373
"David Copperfield" is considered his most autobiographical novel Charles Dickens $200 DJ AUTHORS 1997-09-22 #3001
Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens FJ FAMOUS AUTHORS 1997-02-25 #2882
In 1858 W.M. Thackeray quarreled with this author in the so-called Garrick Club Affair Charles Dickens $1,000 DJ AUTHORS 1996-12-16 #2831
"Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author Charles Dickens $200 DJ AUTHORS 1996-07-18 #2754
His pseudonym Boz was a mispronunciation of Moses as "Boses" in early childhood Charles Dickens $400 DJ AUTHORS 1996-06-28 #2740
He had yet to complete "Oliver Twist" when he began writing "Nicholas Nickleby" Dickens $200 DJ BRITISH AUTHORS 1995-12-12 #2597
He first used the pseudonym Boz in the August 1834 issue of “The Monthly Magazine” Dickens $600 DJ BRITISH AUTHORS 1994-05-02 #2236
He must have liked little characters: he created little Em'ly, Little Nell & Tiny Tim Dickens $600 DJ AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS 1993-03-10 #1968
Compton's Ency. says, "For a fictionalized account of his early life, read 'David Copperfield'" Charles Dickens $200 DJ BRITISH AUTHORS 1992-05-05 #1782
His summer home, now called "Bleak House", is where he penned the novel of the same name Dickens $400 DJ AUTHORS 1989-01-13 #1010
His 1st novel's actual title is "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" Dickens $200 DJ AUTHORS 1987-10-29 #724
Early in his career, he wrote sketches of London life for newspapers & signed them "Boz" Charles Dickens $800 DJ ENGLISH AUTHORS 1987-09-23 #698
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