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Charles Dickens in Context
PreviewCharles 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.
What the Dickens? - Tales of Crime and Mystery by Charles ...
Charles DickensCharles 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.
Pickwick papers
Charles DickensCharles 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 ...
A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensThis 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: The World of His Novels
Joseph Hillis MillerA review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation of the real world of Dickens' experience into an imaginary one
Great Expectations
Charles DickensOne 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 and Other Christmas Books
Charles DickensCharles Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ... A Christmas carol and other Christmas books / Charles Dickens; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. v. cm. –– (Oxford world's classics) Includes bibliographical ...
Charles Dickens's American Audience
Robert McParlandDuring the time when the American nation was emerging, the novels of a British author Charles Dickens contributed significantly to the making of American culture.
A Knight of the Nets
Amelia E. Barr... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Charles Dickens, Updated Edition
PreviewPresents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
Charles Dickens: Dickens's later work : assessments since 1870
More editions189 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 ...
Charles Dickens - Hard Times/Bleak House
Nicholas MarshThe volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Dickens' novels for the first time.
Night Walks
Charles DickensThis 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.
Charles Dickens
Michael SlaterRichly 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
Charles DickensThis 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.
A Christmas Carol (Dover Thrift Editions)
Charles DickensDickens' 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
PreviewThe 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.
Ladybird Classics: A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensThis Ladybird Classic ebook is an abridged retelling of the classic story of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, making it perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone.
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles DickensIn 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
Charles DickensThis collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.
Charles Dickens
PreviewEach chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made.
Charles Dickens
Lyn PykettEach chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made.
A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Preview1914), I, pp. 27–30. 7 Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, ed. Trevor Blount (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966), p. 106. Blount notes the importance of these books to Dickens himself as a boy (p. 952). 8 Ad Putter, 'Story ...
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
PreviewPsychoanalytical analyses of Dickens's work have been followed up by Annie Ramel, a professor at the University of Lyon, who wrote a study of Great Expectations inspired by Freudian and Lacanian theories, Great Expectations: le père ou le ...
Knowing Dickens
Rosemarie BodenheimerKnowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox ...
Daniel PoolA “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs ...
Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History
Dr Sean C Grass... his kind permission to publish freely from Dickens's manuscript materials related to Our Mutual Friend. his courtesy and promptness during the permissions-gathering phase of this work helped enormously. i am also grateful to Thomas lisanti ...
Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular ...
K. BoehmJillL.Matus and Steven Connor havewritten about Dickens's lifelong engagement with mesmerism. See JillL. Matus, 'Trauma, Memory, and Railway Disaster:The Dickensian Connection', Victorian Studies, 43 (2001), 413–36; Steven Connor, ...
King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records
Jon Hartley Fox... and Music of Hazel Dickens I Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone Charles Ives Reconsidered I Gayle Sherwood Magee The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance I Edited by Chad Berry Country Music Humorists and Comedians ...
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