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No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact:  \nFacts On File, Inc.  \nAn imprint of Infobase Publishing  \n132 West 31st Street  \nNew York NY 10001  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nDavis, Paul B. (Paul Benjamin), 1934–  \nCritical companion to Charles Dickens : a literary reference to his life and work / Paul Davis.—Rev. ed.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.  \nISBN 0-8160-6407-5 (hc : alk. paper)  \n1. Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870—Criticism and interpretation—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.  \nPR4588D37 2006 823’.8—dc22 2006003026  \nFacts On File books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or  \n(800) 322-8755.  \nYou can find Facts On File on the World Wide Web at [http://www.factsonfile.com](http://www.factsonfile.com)  \nText design by Erika K. Arroyo Cover design by Cathy Rincon/Anastasia Plé  \nPrinted in the United States of America VB Hermitage 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper.  \nFor Benjamin, Kate, and Joshua  \nCONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Part I: Biography 1  \nPart II: Works A–Z 11  \nMajor Works 13  \nBarnaby Rudge 15  \nThe Battle of Life 31  \nBleak House 34  \nThe Chimes 61  \nA Christmas Carol 66  \nThe Cricket on the Hearth 73  \nDavid Copperfield 77  \nDombey and Son 103  \nGreat Expectations 126  \nHard Times 148  \nThe Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain 161  \nLittle Dorrit 167  \nMartin Chuzzlewit 191  \nThe Mystery of Edwin Drood 217  \nNicholas Nickleby 230  \nThe Old Curiosity Shop 253  \nOliver Twist 271  \nOur Mutual Friend 290  \nThe Pickwick Papers 316  \nA Tale of Two Cities 346  \nMinor Works 365  \nPart III: Related People, Places, and Topics 463  \nPart IV: Appendices 637  \nChronology of Dickens’s Life and Major Works 639  \nDickens’s Major Works 643  \nSecondary Source Bibliography 644  \nIndex 655  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nIhave relied on the work of innumerable scholars  \nand critics in developing the entries for Critical Companion to Charles Dickens. Some of my debts are acknowledged in the text, but many more are silent, even unrecognized. I am particularly grateful to generations of Dickensians, writing in journals like The Dickensian and The Dickens Quarterly, whose devotion to Dickens and his works continues to enlarge our understanding of the man, his times, and his novels. I am indebted to Bob Gish, who originally suggested this project; to Michael Fisher, who provided institutional support for it; and to two graduate assistants, Ann Grigsby and Joyce  \nFlagg, who helped in choosing and chasing down information and in proposing approaches to various entries. I am also grateful to Gary Scharnhorst, Hugh Witemeyer, Gary Harrison, David Johnson, Pat Smith, Tom Linehan, and Bob Fleming for suggestions on particular entries, and to my wife, Mary, for her patience and for her help in preparing the illustrations. I am especially grateful to Bob Wolfe, my first editor at Facts On File, whose careful reading and thoughtful criticism did much to improve many of the entries, and to Jeff Soloway, my current editor. The inevitable mistakes and omissionsin a work of this scope are wholly my own.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nMore than any British writer other than Shake  \nspeare, Dickens has engaged the popular imagination with his crowded gallery of memorable characters and his detailed rendering of the life of his times. 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