Charles Dickens In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain. 1812年,查尔斯·狄更斯出生,那一年英国出版了66本小说. People had been writing novels for a century-most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719-but nobody…
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A murder that scandalised Harvard and the worldVisiting Boston in 1868, Charles Dickens was asked what he wanted to see most. The room where it happened, Dickens said—by which he meant the scene of a grisly murder that had scandalised the city nearly…
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