Excerpt from The Life of Charles Dickens From this time the career of Dickens was an almost continuous record of popular success. His books had a marvellous sale, and his readers were a vast multitude. It has been well said that, if not a great event in literature, he was yet a great event in history. He established and edited a periodical with what at that time was the largest circulation in the world. His readings in interpretation of his works added largely to his fortune, and even enhanced his fame. As a speaker he ...
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Excerpt from The Life of Charles Dickens From this time the career of Dickens was an almost continuous record of popular success. His books had a marvellous sale, and his readers were a vast multitude. It has been well said that, if not a great event in literature, he was yet a great event in history. He established and edited a periodical with what at that time was the largest circulation in the world. His readings in interpretation of his works added largely to his fortune, and even enhanced his fame. As a speaker he became noted for eloquence and was in constant demand on important oc casions. For more than thirty years he was one of the most conspicuous and, in spite of much detraction one of the most lauded among public characters, and at 1118 death men of eminence, and the English nation itself, paid him honours befitting such celebrity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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