Project Gutenberg 2025-04-14 Public domain in the USA. 280 Crothers, Samuel McChord 1857 1927 Dickens, Charles 1812 1870 Boz Dickens, Charles John Huffam Smith, Jessie Willcox 1863 1935 Smith, Jessie Wilcox The children of Dickens $aNew York :$bCharles Scribner's Sons, $c1925, pubdate 1926. Charlene Taylor, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Children of Dickens" by Samuel McChord Crothers is a literary collection written in the early 20th century. This book offers accessible portraits and scenes centered on the child characters who appear throughout the works of Charles Dickens, blending gentle literary commentary with retellings of memorable episodes from Dickens's novels. Rather than being a straightforward retelling or a critical analysis, it serves as both introduction and companion, showcasing the distinctive lives, personalities, and adventures of Dickensian children such as Pip, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and many others. Readers can expect a warm, descriptive journey through Victorian England as Dickens saw it, with a focus on childhood, family, resilience, and the quirky charm of ordinary city life. The opening of "The Children of Dickens" sets the stage by reflecting on the power of imagination in experiencing historical cities like London and Bagdad, emphasizing that Dickens’s literary genius transformed Victorian London into a place as wondrous and vivid as any fairy-tale city. The narrative introduces Dickens himself, explaining how his own childhood hardships endowed him with deep empathy for children and everyday people, and how his writing style brings both characters and settings to life for readers old and new. The stories begin with detailed introductions to several of Dickens’s most famous youthful protagonists—Pip from "Great Expectations," David Copperfield, the ever-sleepy Fat Boy from "Pickwick Papers," and orphaned Oliver Twist—highlighting their unique circumstances, interactions, and the memorable supporting characters who influence them. Through lively anecdotes and adapted passages, the opening portion paints a rich tapestry of character and place, inviting readers to step into the bustling, peculiar, and ultimately compassionate world that Dickens created for and about children. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/childrenofdicken0000crot/page/n7/mode/2up 20220617202230crothers 1925 US Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters PR Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: British Literature 354322 2025-06-30T05:20:30.856804 text/html 328588 2025-04-14T09:47:29 text/html 3287799 2025-06-30T05:20:39.955797 application/epub+zip 3284388 2025-06-30T05:20:33.469789 application/epub+zip 264070 2025-06-30T05:20:31.581821 application/epub+zip 3597538 2025-06-30T05:20:43.939777 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3554005 2025-06-30T05:20:38.097801 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 309044 2025-06-30T05:20:29.867799 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 289052 2025-04-14T09:47:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17995 2025-06-30T05:20:44.088725 application/rdf+xml 16563 2025-06-30T05:20:31.784795 image/jpeg 2715 2025-06-30T05:20:31.681789 image/jpeg 6206393 2025-06-30T05:20:30.966801 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia