Books with title The Holly-Tree Inn

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.

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have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now. I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by original constitution and character a bashful man. But I will leave the reader unmoved, and proceed with the object before me.

Charles John Huffam Dickens, also known as "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public.

I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would supposeit, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashfulman. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now.I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not beento, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable socialevasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by original constitution and character abashful man. But I will leave the reader unmoved, and proceed with the object before me.That object is to give a plain account of my travels and discoveries in the Holly-Tree Inn; inwhich place of good entertainment for man and beast I was once snowed up.It happened in the memorable year when I parted for ever from Angela Leath, whom I wasshortly to have married, on making the discovery that she preferred my bosomfriend. From our school-days I had freely admitted Edwin, in my own mind, to be farsuperior to myself; and, though I was grievously wounded at heart, I felt the preference tobe natural, and tried to forgive them both. It was under these circumstances that I resolvedto go to America—on my way to the Devil.Communicating my discovery neither to Angela nor to Edwin, but resolving to write each ofthem an affecting letter conveying my blessing and forgiveness, which the steam-tender forshore should carry to the post when I myself should be bound for the New World, farbeyond recall,—I say, locking up my grief in my own breast, and consoling myself as I couldwith the prospect of being generous, I quietly left all I held dear, and started on the desolatejourney I have mentioned.

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