When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

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