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The English Reformation

The English Reformation

Arthur Geoffrey Dickens

This book presents a new edition of the classic study of the religious changes that transformed England in the sixteenth century.
The Discovery of King Arthur

The Discovery of King Arthur

Geoffrey Ashe

Examines the evidence concerning the actual life of King Arthur and traces the development of the myth of King Arthur from the twelfth to the twen tieth century
Knowing Dickens

Knowing Dickens

Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings.
Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

Joseph Hillis Miller

A review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation of the real world of Dickens' experience into an imaginary one
The Quest For Arthur's Britain

The Quest For Arthur's Britain

Geoffrey Ashe

The legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table dominates the mythology of Britain, but could this story prove more fact than fiction?
Charles Dickens in Context

Charles Dickens in Context

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Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked.
The Discovery of King Arthur

The Discovery of King Arthur

Geoffrey Ashe

'The Discovery of King Arthur' presents an investigation that broke the deadlock earlier research had reached.
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader?s notes to help the reader fully appreciate the beauty and humor of Dickens?s work.In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of ...
Charles Dickens: Dickens's later work : assessments since 1870

Charles Dickens: Dickens's later work : assessments since 1870

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189 Inversion in Great Expectations ♢ ELIHU PEARLMAN When Dickens began work on Great Expectations early in 1861 he was aware that the new novel would cover much the same territory that had been traversed a dozen years earlier in ...
Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and ...

Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and ...

Jerome Meckier

Dickens, Realism, and Revaluation Jerome Meckier. Chapter Six Inimitability Regained The Mystery of Edwin Drood INSTANCES OF wrongdoing or wrong thinking at society's upper levels abound in Dickens's novels. Besides Dombey and ...
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

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2 AD PUTTER The twelfth-century Arthur King Arthur came into his own in the twelfth century. Around 1135 he acquired a biographer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and a few decades later a champion poet, Chrétien de Troyes, the pioneer of ...
Charles Dickens, Updated Edition

Charles Dickens, Updated Edition

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Presents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Eric Allen Hall

1968, E1. 3. Wolf, “Arthur.” 4. Examples of these studies include Theresa Runstedtler, Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global ColorLine (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012); Geoffrey C.
What the Dickens? - Tales of Crime and Mystery by Charles ...

What the Dickens? - Tales of Crime and Mystery by Charles ...

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era is still very popular today, here are collected the very finest of his crime and mystery stories.
Charles Dickens - Hard Times/Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Hard Times/Bleak House

Nicholas Marsh

The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Dickens' novels for the first time.
Pickwick papers

Pickwick papers

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Douglas Gordon Crawford. BY CHARLES DICKENS ABRIDGED AND EDITED BY DOUGLAS GORDON CRAWFORD, Ph. D. Late Associate Professor of English in Boston U niversity Formerly Instructor in English in Phillips ...
Night Walks

Night Walks

Charles Dickens

This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world.
Late Monasticism and Reformation

Late Monasticism and Reformation

A. G. Dickens

The second part contains the most important essays published by A.G. Dickens since his Reformation Studies (1982).
Kate and Emma

Kate and Emma

Monica Dickens

Monica Dickens's novel, first published in 1965, opens in a Juvenile court in London.
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Michael Slater

Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the languag
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

This illustrated edition of the Yuletide classic features 12 full-color plates plus 18 black-and-white drawings by the renowned Rackham. Simply put, Dickens' immortal tale has never looked better.
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life.
A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)

A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)

Charles Dickens

Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

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The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology.
The Corporate Finance Sourcebook

The Corporate Finance Sourcebook

National Register Publishing Co. Staff

... of Credit Correspondent Banking Corporate finance Contact Peter Nardin Geoffrey Craig C. Bourdain GeotTrey Craig D. Mumma Geoffrey Craig D. Mumma Adrian Silghigian Geoffrey Craig Geoffrey Craig (713) 751-0300 Direct Phone ( 212) ...
Dickens Novels as Verse

Dickens Novels as Verse

Joseph P. Jordan

Dickens Novels as Verse meticulously describes these book-length patterns in clear, lucid prose.
The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

In this tale, first published serially in 1841 and 1842, Dickens follows Nell Trent, an angelic and unfailingly virtuous girl of "nearly fourteen" and her grandfather as they navigate a world populated by villains, criminals and ne'er-do ...
Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens

This collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.

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