... time. In 1842 he toured America and took it by storm. His six-month trip bore literary fruit: the controversial and unflattering American Notes (1842) and the slyly devastating American episode in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). He published A Christmas Carol in December 1843, the first ... Switzerland, and Paris as well as maintaining residence in London. He published Pictures from Italy (1846), Dombey and Son (1848), and his 'favourite child,' David Copperfield (1850). The fifties marked a return to journalism for Dickens, and increasing attention to social problems. He published Bleak Ho...

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