Interesting details of the life and work of Charles Dickens
Eyewitnesses said that when a ship came to New York to bring a new edition of a Dickens novel, it was met by a crowd of impatient readers, eager to learn the continuation of the adventures of loved heroes. “When Dickens ventured to read his works and met his readers face to face for the first time, England was in ecstasy.” The halls were seized, they were always packed, the enthusiasts plastered the columns, climbed under the stage, just to listen to their favorite writer. America slept in a terrible frost before the box office on the mattresses brought with them, the waiters brought food to them from neighboring restaurants, the crowding was unthinkable, all the halls were small, and eventually the writer was given up for reading the church in Brooklyn. “
Art. Zweig An important compositional device in the works of Dickens is the mystery, the solution of which, according to the literary critic E. Genieva, “brings into the narrative a sensational, detective-dramatic element that allows Dickens to keep the reader in unflagging tension.”
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