PDF Somebody's Luggage By Charles Dickens

PDF Somebody's Luggage By Charles Dickens George Orwell and G K Chesterton—for its realism comedy prose style uniue characterisations and social criticism On the other hand Oscar Wilde Henry James and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth loose writing and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive charactersOn 8 June 1870 Dickens suffered another stroke at his home after a full day's work on Edwin Drood He never regained consciousness and the next day he died at Gad's Hill Place Contrary to his wish to be buried at Rochester Cathedral in an inexpensive unostentatious and strictly private manner he was laid to rest in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey A printed epitaph circulated at the time of the funeral reads To the Memory of Charles Dickens England's most popular author who died at his residence Higham near Rochester Kent 9 June 1870 aged 58 years He was a sympathiser with the poor the suffering and the oppressed; and by his death one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world His last words were On the ground in response to his sister in law Georgina's reuest that he lie downfrom Wikipedia