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The Life of Charles Dickens

door John Forster · 72 delen · about 30 hours 13 minutes leestijd

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Niemand kende Dickens beter dan John Forster. Zij ontmoetten elkaar als jonge mannen, en meer dan dertig jaar lang vertelde Dickens hem alles, liet hem elk plan zien en vertrouwde hem de geheimen toe, waaronder de jeugd in de schoensmeerfabriek die hij voor de wereld verborg. Nadat Dickens in 1870 stierf, schreef Forster deze grote biografie uit de brieven en zijn eigen herinnering. Zij is lang, liefdevol en onvervangbaar.

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Dedication1 min Note to the Present Edition1 min Volume II: Corrections Made in the Later Editions of the First Volume7 min Volume I, Chapter 1 (1812-1822): Childhood35 min Volume I, Chapter 2 (1822-1824): Hard Experiences in Boyhood35 min Volume I, Chapter 3 (1824-1830): School-Days and Start in Life30 min Volume I, Chapter 4 (1831-1835): Reporters' Gallery and Newspaper Literature15 min Volume I, Chapter 5 (1836): First Book, and Origin of Pickwick11 min Volume I, Chapter 6 (1837): Writing the Pickwick Papers34 min Volume I, Chapter 7 (1837-1838): Between Pickwick and Nickleby14 min Volume I, Chapter 8 (1838): Oliver Twist16 min Volume I, Chapter 9 (1838-1839): Nicholas Nickleby19 min Volume I, Chapter 10 (1838-1839): During and After Nickleby13 min Volume I, Chapter 11 (1839): New Literary Project12 min Volume I, Chapter 12 (1840-1841): The Old Curiosity Shop23 min Volume I, Chapter 13 (1840): Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs19 min Volume I, Chapter 14 (1841): Barnaby Rudge21 min Volume I, Chapter 15 (1841): Public Dinner in Edinburgh18 min Volume I, Chapter 16 (1841): Adventures in the Highlands20 min Volume I, Chapter 17 (1841): Again at Broadstairs10 min Volume I, Chapter 18 (1841): Eve of the Visit to America11 min Volume I, Chapter 19 (1842): First Impressions of America25 min Volume I, Chapter 20 (1842): Second Impressions of America35 min Volume I, Chapter 21 (1842): Philadelphia, Washington, and the South31 min Volume I, Chapter 22 (1842): Canal-Boat Journeys: Bound Far West32 min Volume I, Chapter 23 (1842): The Far West: to Niagara Falls35 min Volume I, Chapter 24 (1842): Niagara and Montreal14 min Volume II, Chapter 1 (1842): American Notes25 min Volume II, Chapter 2 (1843): First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit29 min Volume II, Chapter 3 (1843-1844): Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol41 min Volume II, Chapter 4 (1844): Year of Departure for Italy22 min Volume II, Chapter 5 (1844): Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello35 min Volume II, Chapter 6 (1844): Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere35 min Volume II, Chapter 7 (1844): Italian Travel20 min Volume II, Chapter 8 (1845): Last Months in Italy24 min Volume II, Chapter 9 (1845-1846): Again in England. 1845-184629 min Volume II, Chapter 10 (1846): A Home in Switzerland27 min Volume II, Chapter 11 (1846): Swiss People and Scenery23 min Volume II, Chapter 12 (1846): Sketches Chiefly Personal21 min Volume II, Chapter 13 (1846): Literary Labour at Lausanne26 min Volume II, Chapter 14 (1846): Revolution at Geneva, Christmas Book, and Last Days in Switzerland31 min Volume II, Chapter 15 (1846-1847): Three Months in Paris26 min Volume II, Chapter 16 (1846-1848): Dombey and Son37 min Volume II, Chapter 17 (1847-1852): Splendid Strolling44 min Volume II, Chapter 18 (1848-1851): Seaside Holidays (Part 1)28 min Volume II, Chapter 18 (1848-1851): Seaside Holidays (Part 2)26 min Volume II, Chapter 19 (1848-1850): Haunted Man and Household Words19 min Volume II, Chapter 20 (1848-1851): Last Years in Devonshire Terrace (Part 1)28 min Volume II, Chapter 20 (1848-1851): Last Years in Devonshire Terrace (Part 2)24 min Volume III, Chapter 1 (1850-1853): David Copperfield and Bleak House39 min Volume III, Chapter 2 (1853-1855): Home Incidents and Hard Times26 min Volume III, Chapter 3 (1853): Switzerland and Italy Revisited28 min Volume III, Chapter 4 (1853, 1854, and 1856): Three Summers at Boulogne31 min Volume III, Chapter 5 (1855, 1856): Residence in Paris41 min Volume III, Chapter 6 (1855-1857): Little Dorrit, and a Lazy Tour26 min Volume III, Chapter 7 (1857-1858): What Happened at This Time33 min Volume III, Chapter 8 (1856-1870): Gadshill Place21 min Volume III, Chapter 9 (1858-1859): First Paid Readings18 min Volume III, Chapter 10 (1859-1861): All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller20 min Volume III, Chapter 11 (1861-1863): Second Series of Readings24 min Volume III, Chapter 12 (1855-1865): Hints for Books Written and Unwritten26 min Volume III, Chapter 13 (1864-1867): Third Series of Readings33 min Volume III, Chapter 14 (1836-1870): Dickens as a Novelist (Part 1)44 min Volume III, Chapter 14 (1836-1870): Dickens as a Novelist (Part 2)37 min Volume III, Chapter 15 (1867): America Revisited: November and December 186727 min Volume III, Chapter 16 (1868): America Revisited: January to April 1868 (Part 1)28 min Volume III, Chapter 16 (1868): America Revisited: January to April 1868 (Part 2)25 min Volume III, Chapter 17 (1868-1870): Last Readings22 min Volume III, Chapter 18 (1869-1870): Last Book17 min Volume III, Chapter 19 (1836-1870): Personal Characteristics (Part 1)33 min Volume III, Chapter 19 (1836-1870): Personal Characteristics (Part 2)32 min Volume III, Chapter 20 (1869-1870): The End24 min