... 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 of five widely popular Christmas books. In the mid to late 1840s, the Dickens family lived in Italy, Switzerland, and ... busy life: He often gave talks and readings and wrote many pamphlets, plays and letters. This involvement in so many activities was very exhausting. During one of his public readings, he died after co...

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... When he visited America in 1842, he was 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 the season followed, notably The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. Dickens lived in ... Italy in 1844 and in Switzerland in 1846. Dombey and Son (1848) was the fir...

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