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Two hand-written pages of Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens's third major novel.
In most of his books, Charles Dickens deals with specific social or political ills, and in the case of Nicholas Nickleby he wrote about the poor treatment of children in certain boarding schools in the north of England, which led to the closure of these schools. At that point in his life -- years before he wrote A Christmas Carol -- Dickens realized that he could use his pen to improve the lives of his contemporaries.
Christmas Chapter of The Pickwick Papers:
Before Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, he experimented with short Christmas narratives, notably in the Christmas chapter of his first international "blockbuster" novel, The Pickwick Papers. The monthly installment shown here is one of twenty monthly installments of this novel. |