![]() ![]() The tenant of the haunted house asks this question Position on the existence of ghosts: why do they haunt unpleasant places, when In this initial story the author states his Right from The Pickwick Papers (1836) onward did he utilize the ghost story as editorial, emotional counter-point and with many installments to be provided on such short notice, filler.Īnd his friends tell five ghost stories in the course of the book, starting with Of his terrorizing nurse he says “…Her name was Mercy,īut Dickens did not begin his holiday hauntings with Scrooge and Marley but worked slowly up to that book with small episodes tucked into larger serials. Penny-dreadful-style gore-fests like those recounted in “Captain Murderer and His nanny, Mary Weller, frightened the six year old Charlie with But before these things, Dickens was a lover of ghost He will also be remembered as a social reformer, the man whoĮmbodied the drudgery and despair of the working man during the hey-deys of the ![]() ![]() The Artful Dodger, David Copperfield, Little Nell, fat, jolly Pickwick and Dickens will be largely remembered as a creator of characters, Oliver Twist, ![]()
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