... this 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 of ... snobbishness) and how he lives based on his values of social standing and possessions. Charles Dickens was one of the major influences in English Literature today. He wrote many novels and stories that continue to impress us still today. Since Dickens took is real life situations and transforme...

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... wondered when "another Exhibition - for the great display of England's sins and negligence's [would be presented to the] steady contemplation of all eyes". (Schlicke, p48). Such keen statements, within his literature and journalism has for many years shaped Dickens as a pioneer of the working-class movments, and almost voice box for their many grievances and sufferings. However it is debatable how ... of Bleak House. Whereas the Chartist is described by Carlyle as one to who "the four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Roman enigmas to him-, Bleak House notes how it must be st...

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