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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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rs, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch. Thethree best known are A Christmas Carol, TheChimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth.Strange to say, they were mostly written whilethe author was traveling abroad: for example,the title of The Chimes was suggested, not bythe merry Christmas bells of some Englishchurch, but by the chiming of the bells of achurch in Genoa. In 1846 the now famous and popular authorwas in Italy, and engaged in the production ofDombey and Son. In this novel he attacks thevice of pride—pride of birth, pride of position,pride of wealth —and on the way gives us a trulypathetic picture of little Paul Dombey and hisearly death. The scene of the death of the littleboy so deeply affected the author himself that,after writing it, he wandered all night throughthe streets of Paris, feeling as though he himselfhad lost a well-loved child. One of the leading London dailies—the DailyNews—had Dickens for its first editor. But hesoon gave up this work, which was not congenial.
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A FEW GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS. 30 six GREAT STORY-TELLERS 31 Then he devoted himself to hia writing and toanother occupation, in which he achieved con-spicuous success, both in England and America.This was the public reading of extracts from hisown works. In which he further delighted manythousands of lus readers, helped many a deserv-ing charity, and put a large amount of moneyUltO lbs own pocket. David Copperfield appeared in 1850. This isone oi lbs best known and best loved works, andone for which he himself is said to have had amarked preference. The story is, to a great ex-tent, the story of his own life, and therefore be-corhes doubly interesting. Shakespeare makesHamlet mention the laws delay, in recountingthe ills of life which oppress mankind. Dickenswrote a complete novel upon this theme, entitledBleak House, of which we give an outline inanother place. Dickens had now once more taken up editorialwork, but of a different kind from that in whichhe formerly engaged. He began Hou

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