... received with ovations but awakened some displeasure by his remarks on copyright protection and his approval of the abolition of slavery. He replied with sharp criticism of America in American Notes (1842) and the novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843). The first of his Christmas books was the well-loved A Christmas Carol (1843). In later years other short novels and stories written for ... and The Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens lived in Italy in 1844 and in Switzerland in 1846. Dombey and Son (1848) was the first in a string of triumphant novels including David Copperfield (1850), his own favo...

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... probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth" (Salinger 3). This gives us our first clue of Holden's cynical nature and gives ... secure (Fitzgerald 132). This is why Holden sneaks home to see his little sister Phoebe, because he is worried about her. When he gets there, he watches her sleep and notes that adults " look lousy when they"re asleep and they have their mouths way open,...

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