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Summary
Charles Dickens defined the Industrial Revolution, using his pen to fight the fog, filth, and injustice of Victorian London. This audiobook moves beyond the caricatures to explore how personal trauma and serial publication created the "Dickensian" world we know today.
In this comprehensive analysis, you will examine:
The Serial Hook: How monthly publishing schedules drove the pacing and plot of masterpieces like The Pickwick Papers.
Biographical Roots: How the trauma of the blacking factory shaped his obsession with debt and bureaucracy.
Fiction as Reform: A detailed look at his crusade against the Poor Laws (Oliver Twist) and the Chancery courts (Bleak House).
London as Character: The symbolic use of the city, the river, and the prison in his darker, mature works like Little Dorrit.
Witness the invention of the modern urban novel and the permanent critique of social inequality.
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Biography and Memoir, Literary Classics
