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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. CONTENTS The Bashful Young Gentleman The Out-and-out Young Gentleman The Very Friendly Young Gentleman The Military Young Gentleman The Political Young Gentleman The Domestic Young Gentleman The Censorious Young Gentleman The Funny Young Gentleman The Theatrical Young Gentleman The Poetical Young Gentleman The ‘Throwing-off’ Young Gentleman The Young Ladies’ Young Gentleman Conclusion

When we consider Dickens's life and work, in comparison with that of the two great poets we have been studying, the contrast is startling. While Tennyson and Browning were being educated for the life of literature, and shielded most tenderly from the hardships of the world, Dickens, a poor, obscure, and suffering child, was helping to support a shiftless family by pasting labels on blacking bottles, sleeping under a counter like a homeless cat, and once a week timidly approaching the big prison where his father was confined for debt. In 1836 his Pickwick was published, and life was changed as if a magician had waved his wand over him. While the two great poets were slowly struggling for recognition, Dickens, with plenty of money and too much fame, was the acknowledged literary hero of England, the idol of immense audiences which gathered to applaud him wherever he appeared. And there is also this striking contrast between the novelist and the poets,--that while the whole tendency of the age was toward realism, away from the extremes of the romanticists and from the oddities and absurdities of the early novel writers, it was precisely by emphasizing oddities and absurdities, by making caricatures rather than characters, that Dickens first achieved his popularity.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. ContentsTO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND; ALSO THE YOUNG LADIES OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES, AND LIKEWISE THE YOUNG LADIES RESIDENT IN THE ISLES OF GUERNSEY, JERSEY, ALDERNEY, AND SARK, THE HUMBLE DEDICATION OF THEIR DEVOTED ADMIRER,SHEWETH, -THE BASHFUL YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE OUT-AND-OUT YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE VERY FRIENDLY YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE MILITARY YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE POLITICAL YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE DOMESTIC YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE CENSORIOUS YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE FUNNY YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE THEATRICAL YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE POETICAL YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE 'THROWING-OFF' YOUNG GENTLEMANTHE YOUNG LADIES' YOUNG GENTLEMANCONCLUSION