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Excerpt from Paul Dombey: From Dombey and Son
American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit. His sarcasm and the severity with which in these two books he caricatured the people he met excited indignation among Americans. This feeling gradually passed away, however, and in 1868, upon his second visit, he was cordially received in all the larger cities of the United States. He read selections from his own works, and crowds came to hear him.
In England he was universally popular. The queen offered him a title of nobility, but he declined it, saying that he wished to be remembered by no other name than Charles Dickens. He continued to write until the very day of his death, and left unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which promised to be one of his best novels. He died suddenly on the 8th of June, 1870 and the nation paid him homage by burying him in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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