All the Year Round. Volume 942

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1886480 pages

This volume of 'All the Year Round' presents a diverse collection of narratives and non-fiction pieces from the 19th century. Readers will find serialized stories like 'A Dateless Bargain' and 'Jane Cossentine,' alongside a biographical sketch of Abraham Lincoln. It offers a glimpse into the popular literature and interests of the Victorian era.

Avg. reading time: 9h 5m
Prose complexity: 4/10

Informative Reflective Complex

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Catherine Louisa Pirkis was born in London, the daughter of Lewis Stephens Lyne, an accountant and comptroller-general of Inland Revenue. In 1872, at the age of 33, Pirkis married Frederick Edward Pirkis, fleet-paymaster for the Royal Navy, and the couple moved often. They had a daughter (born 1874 in Surrey) and a son (born 1876 in Belgium). Pirkis wrote her first novel, Disappeared from Her Home, in 1877; the mystery novel portends her creation of the popular lady detective *Loveday Brooke...