Davis, Paul B

Contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries that provide a wide variety of information about nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens, covering his novels and other writings, characters, biographical details, social themes, literary forms and terms, and other topics.

Examines the life and works of nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens; and contains a concise biography of the author, critical analyses of his major and minor works, and profiles of his friends, family, and contemporaries.