Free Download London in the Time of Dickens [TTC Audio]
English | November 03, 2023 | ASIN: B0CLYWNMVQ | M4B@64 kbps | 6h 12m | 178 MB
Lecturer: Lillian Nayder
By the start of the Victorian era, London was home to nearly 2 million people, a number that expanded to more than 6 million by 1901, the year of Queen Victoria’s death. This immense growth made the city an astonishing study in the varieties of human experience-the perfect place for a novelist to find his voice. Charles Dickens did just that in the 1830s.
Born in 1812, Dickens spent most of his life in a rapidly expanding London. As perhaps the most lauded of Victorian writers and a perennial classroom favorite, Dickens gives us a window into the past. His fiction and journalism capture the complexities of Victorian life, while continuing to resonate with meaning today.
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