His novels often showed a grittier side to Victorian London, being associated with the dark and grimy city in novels like 'Oliver Twist', with the term 'Dickensian' being used to describe anything like that. Charles Dickens is of course one of the most famous novelists who has ever lived, his books being read worldwide by old and young. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page, 'Mary Hobson'.
'Bleak House', two volumes bound in one, undated, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title page of Volume I, 'Mary Hobson'. 'Little Dorrit', two volumes bound in one undated, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. 'Dombey and Son', undated, illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'Mary Hobson'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates.
Illustrated with a frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Bound without frontispiece by George Cruikshank. Illustrated by Frank Stone with a frontispiece. A collection of the most popular novels of Charles Dickens. The lack of hygiene and the inhumane treatment of pupils was a source of great scandal at the time.An attractively bound collection of the eight most popular novels of the Victorian author Charles Dickens, illustrated. It was Dickens’s intention to reveal to the public the horrors of Yorkshire’s boarding schools, where parents would dump their unwanted children for indefinite periods. Nicholas is appalled by the treatment of the school’s orphans, in particular a frail and simple-mined boy called Smike. Nicholas’s adventures take him to Dotheboys Hall, home of the brutal schoolmaster Wackford Squeers – one of Dickens’s greatest grotesques. Through his sharply drawn characters and compelling plots, Dickens created an evocative and enduring image of the Victorian underclass, tempering poverty with hope and wringing humour from despair.Ĭharles Dickens’s novel, Nicholas Nickleby, was first published in monthly parts between March 1838 and September 1839. In doing so, his writings smoothed the path of reform. Dickens was not only a master of storytelling he was also foremost among 19th-century novelists in confronting his middle-class readers with the human face of social deprivation. This is the handwritten draft of ‘Nicholas Nickleby’, penned by Charles Dickens around July 1838.
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