Dickens would walk around the city of London, and notice every single detail of a person or an object he was looking at or dealing with. He would later come up with a story about the event, and sketch the perfect image that he saw. Dickens used the nickname "Boz-, and soon many publishers were contacting him with job offers. The life of stealing, cheating and lies was about to vanish for Charles Dickens.
On February 7, 1836, Dickens released his first volume of his works. It was on his twenty-fourth birthday that these works came out. They were a collection of the sketches and political cartoons drawn by "Boz."" These works sold extremely well in London and surrounding areas. Because of the massive success of his works, many more job offers came pouring in. One of the offers that he chose to accept was a monthly article that was to be published in the local newspaper. This came to be called "the Pickwick Papers- because of one of the characters in the sketches. .
By the age of twenty one, Charles Dickens was already one of the very first "celebrities."" People wanted to know everything about his life. He is only second to Shakespeare when it comes to readers following his works. The two authors are actually very similar when it comes to the characters they choose to use. They both use their real life influences for their characters, and base some of their stories on experiences that have happened to them or to someone they are acquainted with. .
His life seems to echo the plots of his epic novels: indeed he was strongly influenced by personal experience and his stories brim with references to the places and characters he knew and the preoccupations that haunted his mind. (93).
Dickens has a plethora of works that he has accomplished during the course of his life. His works include over fifteen novels, each being over eight hundred pages in length. This is an unprecedented task for any author before Dickens.
