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Kate and Emma
Monica DickensMonica Dickens's novel, first published in 1965, opens in a Juvenile court in London.
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-century ...
Monica FlegelConsidering a wide range of texts by authors such as Locke, Rousseau, Caroline Norton, Henry Mayhew, Frances Trollope, and Charles Dickens, Monica Flegel provides an interpretive framework for understanding the formation of child cruelty ...
Knowing Dickens
Rosemarie BodenheimerKnowing 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
Joseph Hillis MillerA review of Dickens' works stressing the transformation of the real world of Dickens' experience into an imaginary one
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.
Befriending: The American Samaritans
Monica DickensThis book relates the founding in America, and evaluates the effectiveness of, a branch of the worldwide organization of volunteers known as the Samaritans, committed to the prevention of suicide through the simple means of "listening ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction: Dickens, Realism, and ...
Jerome MeckierDickens, 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 ...
Charles Dickens, Updated Edition
PreviewPresents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
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.
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.
Early Santa Monica
Louise B. GabrielThe vintage photographs in this tour through Santa Monica's beginnings and its growth through the early 20th century were selected from the archives of the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum.
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 ...
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.
Late Monasticism and Reformation
A. G. DickensThe second part contains the most important essays published by A.G. Dickens since his Reformation Studies (1982).
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.
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 (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.
Dickens Novels as Verse
Joseph P. JordanDickens Novels as Verse meticulously describes these book-length patterns in clear, lucid prose.
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.
Reading Dickens's Bleak House:
Richard GravilThis readers' guide to Bleak House begins with a general introduction to Dickens in the context of his times, stressing the public themes of the novel and the experimental aspects of its technique.
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 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.
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