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Charles Dickens : his life and his work / Stephen Leacock.

by Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.

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Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2004.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.

1550417673 (pbk.) :

vii, 280 p. ; 21 cm.

Cover and spine title has subtitle: His life and work.

Includes index.

"This reprinted edition of Charles Dickens, his life and work, has not been edited, updated or revised to correct typograhical errors or ommissions found in the original version, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933, 1934"--T.p. verso.

Chapter 1. Childhood and Youth of Dickens -- Poverty, Debt, and a Debtor's Prison -- The Sweet Uses of Adversity -- Chapter 2. Mr. Pickwick Takes the World by Storm -- Dickens as a Reporter -- Sketches by Boz -- The Pickwick Papers -- Chapter 3. "BOZ" Conquers England -- The Rise of a Rocket -- Oliver Twist -- Nicholas Nickleby -- Master Humphrey's Clock Bursts Its Case -- Chapter 4. BOZ Visits America (1842) -- A National Reception -- The Roaring 'Forties -- Open Arms and Open Ingratitude -- Chapter 5. Years of Success (1842-1847) -- Home Again -- Martin Chuzzlewit -- A Christmas Carol -- France and Italy -- Chapter 6. Flood Tide (1845-1850) -- The Daily News -- Switzerland -- Paris -- Dombey and Son -- David Copperfield -- Chapter 7. "Bleak House" and Social Reform (1850-1854) -- Amateur Theatricals -- Bleak House -- A Child's History of England -- Hard Times -- Chapter 8. Dickens As an Editor (1854-1857) -- Household Words -- France -- Little Dorrit -- Gad's Hill -- Chapter 9. Dickens Separates from His Wife (1858) -- Chapter 10. Dickens Takes the Platform (1858-1865) -- Public Readings -- All the Year Round -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Our Mutual Friend -- Chapter 11. The Second Visit to America -- A Quarter Century Later -- Dickens and Dollars -- Mark Twain Listens to Charles Dickens -- Chapter 12. Closing in - The Close (1870) -- Last Readings -- Edwin Drood -- Death -- Chapter 13. The Mystery of More than "Edwin Drood" -- Edwin Drood Still Alive -- Joyful Resurrections at Last Certain -- At Rest in Westminster Abbey -- Dickens's Will -- His Family -- First Editions and Manuscripts -- His Place in Literature.

"Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) shares the stage with Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as one of the best-loved humorists in the English-speaking world, and at the time of its original publication, Leacock's biography of Dickens was widely and enthusiastically hailed as a vital, grand, and masterful examination of the man and his writing." "That Leacock's biography of the great novelist was the first to explore the humour of Dickens' novels is only natural. Originally published in 1933, it is filled with sharp commentary and was a book that Leacock was enormously and justifiably proud." "Of Leacock's masterful recounting of the life of Dickens, the New York Times wrote, "There is wit in this book, and such sprightliness as only a Stephen Leacock could inject into it." Readable, entertaining, and insightful, this biography is a classic work, admirable for both its subject and author. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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