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Corporate Authors: BBC America, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Hodges, Adrian, 1957-, Harwood, Kate, Curtis, Simon, 1960-, Armstrong, Alun, Elphick, Michael, Eve, Trevor, 1951-, Davies, Oliver Ford, Fox, Emilia, 1974-, Hoskins, Bob, Lyndhurst, Nicholas, McKellen, Ian, McNeice, Ian, Quirke, Pauline, Smith, Maggie, 1934-2024-, Staunton, Imelda, 1956-, Wanamaker, Zoë, 1949-, Whitehouse, Paul, 1958-, Radcliffe, Daniel, 1989-, Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: [South Burlington, VT] : WGBH Boston Video, 2002.
Series:Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
Subjects:
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Drama.
Young men > England > Drama.
Orphans > England > Drama.
Television programs.
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Item Description:Originally broadcast on television in 2000.
Based on the book by Charles Dickens.
Features: cast list, poster gallery, access to the website, scene selections.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Andy Collins ; editor, Philip Kloss ; composer, Rob Lane.
ISBN:1578079624
9781578079629
Author Notes:Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s.

His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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