Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of February 7th
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It is the 38th day of the year, leaving 327 days remaining in 2022.
Dickens was a widely inventive, popular, and prolific author, considered the greatest of the Victorian-era writers, and one of the best writers in the English language. Unusually for a man of his time, his books were well read during his lifetime, as well as in the 150 years since his death. His work has never gone out of style.
His first published works were short, serialized fiction. He had an inate ability to write quick, entertaining stories on the fly, and his comic novel, The Pickwick Papers, published in installments in 1836 and 1837, made him and his work widely popular.
Diuring this time, Dickens also wrote two plays, a pamphlet, and he worked as a journalist covering Parliamentary debates and elections for the Morning Chronicle in London. But he soon moved on to edit Bentley'sMonthly, in which he continued to publish his stories as he wrote them.
Here and elsewhere, he churned out Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiousity Shop, and Barnaby Ridge in monthly or even weekly installments. His popularity and fame increased as many of his books were further adapted for the stage.
Eventually, his literary talent led him to create or improve upon several genrés -- narrative fiction and Christmas stories among them -- and he turned to writing such novels and stories full time.
He could write humor and satire; he had a keen observation of his society and an ear for dialogue, and he could create characters that appealed to the masses as well as high society. He had a strong working knowledge of the city of London, its people, and its social ills.
His novels and stories include several in the literary canon of British fiction, including A Christman Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.
Dickens, who lived in London most of his life, died in 1870 at his country home outside Kent, England.
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