Identifier: colliersnewencyc03newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of papers sketching off the socialcharacteristics of English middle and lowclass life. In 1836, under the title ofTales and Sketches by Boz the paperswere published in two volumes. Theproduction of the celebrated PickwickPapers, in the year following (1837),conclusively stamped him as an authorof a peculiarly original cast of genius.A long and brilliant series of successesfollowed. His works include: Sketchesby Boz (1835-1836); Pickwick Papers(1837); Oliver Twist (1838-1839); Nicholas Nickleby (1839); MasterHumphreys Clock (1840-1841), aweekly issue in periodical form, com-prising among others the installmentsof Old Curiosity Shop and Barna-by Rudge; American Notes (1842);A Christmas Carol (1843) ; Mar-tin Chuzzlewit (1844); The Chimes(1844); The Cricket on the Hearth(1845); Pictures from Italy (1846);The Battle of Life (1846) ; Dom-bey and Son (1848); The HauntedMan (1848); David Copperfield(1850); Bleak House (1853); AChilds History of England (1854);Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit
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CHARLES DICKENS (1857); A Tale of Two Cities (1859);Great Expectations (1861); Our Mu-tual Friend (1865) ; The Mystery ofEdwin Drood (1870), unfinished; andmany short pieces and humorous essays,stories, and sketches. He died in GadsHill Place, near Rochester (England),June 9, 1870. DICKINSON, EMILY, an Americanpoet; born in Amherst, Mass., Dec. 10,1830. Living the life of a recluse, shewrote much verse in forms peculiar toherself. In 1892 a collection of herpoems was issued which received warmpraise from competent critics. In all,three volumes of her verse and prosehave appeared. She died in Amherst,May 15, 1886. DICKINSON, GOLDS WORTHYLOWES, an English writer and scholar.He was educated at the CharterhouseSchool and at Kings College, Cambridge,where he became a lecturer. He studiedalso at the London School of Economics DICKINSON 354 DICTATOR and Political Science. His publishedwritings include The Greek View ofLife (1890); The Trag-edy of thePuritan Revolution (1891) ; The De-velopme

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