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Week 1 (1.1-1.7) Childhood-Between Pickwick and Nickleby
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Week 2 (3/8-3/14) - Vol.1 Chapters 9-16.
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This book is guilty of being both a rush job and a historical marker as it gives little insights in Charles Dickens' mind from the point of view of a close friend, fellow author, pandering fan, and later executor of Dickens' will, John Forster. The biography also gives an additional insight into Dickens' work as a boy in the blacking factory, and his first trip to North America when he stopped in Halifax NS, and after a choppy sea crossing and having his ship run aground on the mud banks off NS,
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Jun 25, 2014
Cindy Newton
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