Author: John Forster
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John Forster
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Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Pages : 528
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The Life of Charles Dickens: 1842-1852
Author: John Forster
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John Forster
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Languages : en
Pages : 313
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Pages : 313
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The Life of Charles Dickens: 1812-1847
Author: John Forster
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John Forster
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A Dinner at Poplar Walk
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833
Dombey and Son
Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
Mrs. Poe
Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476702918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476702918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Author: Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Pages : 462
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The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Pages : 398
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