Dickens, on the other hand, with the publication of Pickwick Papers in book form (1838), had ahead of him more than 30 years of demandingВ labor. He retires to the country with his servant Sam Weller for a long and restful life. Samuel Pickwick, we all know, survives crooked lawyers and even, it seems, the temptations of love. Bardell, not to mention those two shady lawyers Dodson and Fogg, and that shrewd master of realpolitik, the lawyer Perker. Wardle, his daughters Bella and Emily, his spinster sister Rachael, Samuel Weller, Job Trotter, and the landlady Mrs. Of Samuel Pickwick and his fellow clubsmen Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass-and those they met: Alfred Jingle, Dr. Soon enough a substantial segment of the English reading public, rich and poor and many, many in between, became familiar with the antic and sometimes soberly edifying carryings-on At the same time he immersed himself in his own world-reported on the workings of his mindвЂ™s imagination, its exceedingly vigorousВ life. He abandoned the writing of conventional journalism, though he worked for a while (two years) as an editor. Shortly thereafter he began the first of his Pickwick pieces-вЂќThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.вЂќ By now he was ready to marry, and to shift course as a writer. In August 1834, he began using the name Boz, and by February of 1836, at the age of 24, he had published Sketches by Boz- with the additional explanatory title, Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. In December 1833, the Monthly Magazine published DickensвЂ™ first sketch of London street life. Inside him burned, even then, a writerвЂ™s desire to expand upon incidents, convey a given atmosphere, give moral shape to a particular factuality. All London became his routine beat all England easily tempted him, if he felt the story demanded that extraВ effort. He traveled anywhere and everywhere in search of a good political story. Moreover, he was astonishingly energetic-a quality heвЂ™d never stop possessing. He also had developed a compelling manner of narrative presentation-strong, suggestive prose. He had a keen eye for 19th-century English politics-its moral postures, its moments and longer of theater, both high and low, its possibilities, and its sad limitations. He tried journalism: first the True Sun, then Mirror of Parliament, then the Morning Chronicle, His specialty was parliamentary reportage. In 1829 he became a court reporter for the Court of Chancery, whose majestic inscrutability would, decades later, dominate Bleak House. He loved the English language, dreamed of using it in one way or another. He also, in a matter of months, became bored. The lesson would never be forgotten by a novelist who was forever reminding his readers, through the workings of one or another plot, how arbitrary fate can be and how good can come of bad-or, of course, viceВ versa.ДЄt 15 Dickens was studying law as an attorneyвЂ™s apprentice. It was only the death of his paternal grandmother that enabled his father to be released from prison. In his spare time he wandered the streets of London, a penniless lad curious to understand the teeming confusion of a great port city. As a child, Dickens also worked for extremely low wages in a shoe-blacking factory: he pasted labels on bottles. This prison, Marshalsea, figures prominently in Little Dorrit, even as it did in the life of the young Dickens, who spent time behind bars in accordance with prevailing custom a debtorвЂ™s family often accompanied him when be became locked up. When Dickens was 12 years old (in 1824), his father was sent to prison because he had accumulated debts and lacked the means of paying them. His father was a clerk in EnglandвЂ™s Navy Pay Office he was, as well, all too relaxed when it came to spending the modest salary he earned. Some of the important details of the life of Charles Dickens are as familiar to many of us as the various qualities of mind and heart which we have come to associate with such memorable characters as David Copperfield and Philip Pimp, otherwise known as Pip or Esther Summerson and Little Dorrit or yes, Vohles, Jaggers, and Stryver, three lawyers whose names suggest no strong authorial admiration.

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