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The 200th anniversary of the birthday of Charles Dickens is commemorated through this collection of poetry, short literary stories, short stories of non-fiction like essays and speeches. He was born on 7 February 1812, and 200 years after, 7 February 2012, this set of his works were attributed in his honor and subsequent volumes were also published during the celebration of his anniversary. Some stories enclosed in the second volume are of love, Christmas stories, crime and education, those stories of interest and encouragement. The anniversary collection consists of Births. Mrs. Meek, of a son from Reprinted Pieces; Romance, from the pen of Alice Rainbird (aged seven) from Holiday Romance; A Coal Miner’s Evidence from Household Words; Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy, Part 1; Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy, Part 2 Three Detective Anecdotes from Reprinted Pieces; In Memoriam: W. M. Thackeray from Miscellaneous Papers; The Schoolboy’s Story, from Some Short Christmas Stories; The Lost Arctic Voyagers, Part 1, from Household Words; Speech: The Oxford and Harvard Boat Race, Sydenham, August 30 1869; The Fine Old English Gentleman, from The Complete Poems; Lying Awake from Reprinted Pieces; A Child’s Dream of a Star, from Reprinted Pieces; Nobody’s Story from Some Short Christmas Stories; Tom Tiddler’s Ground, Chapter 1; Tom Tiddler’s Ground, Chapters 6 and 7; Our School from Reprinted Pieces; Speech: The Royal Academy Dinner, May 2 1870; The Young Couple, from Sketches of Young Couples; and Crime and Education from Miscellaneous Papers. Charles John Huffam Dickens was a British novelist and social critic. He wrote many of the world’s well known fictional characters and is considered as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His literary works revel in an unparalleled fame during his days, and by the 20th century critics and scholars highly commended him as a literary genius. His works are remarkable for their amusing dealings of social issues.
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