Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Life of Charles Dickens: 1842-1852
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Author: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062954962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens’s creative genius and enduring popularity. As we follow his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his own experience—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth-century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. Illustrated with 30 black-and-white images “Dazzling.” —BookPage “Wilson has a number of persuasive ideas about Dickens, whom he sees as not only a conflicted personality but a tragic one, despite his genius for comedy.” —The New York Times Book Review “Divulge[s] fascinating contradictions in a man whose work has entertained more generations than any writer could ever dream of.” —Los Angeles Times
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062954962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens’s creative genius and enduring popularity. As we follow his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his own experience—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth-century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. Illustrated with 30 black-and-white images “Dazzling.” —BookPage “Wilson has a number of persuasive ideas about Dickens, whom he sees as not only a conflicted personality but a tragic one, despite his genius for comedy.” —The New York Times Book Review “Divulge[s] fascinating contradictions in a man whose work has entertained more generations than any writer could ever dream of.” —Los Angeles Times
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Becoming Dickens
Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674072235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. Like the hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted by “what might have been, and what was not.” In his own lifetime, Dickens was without rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.” But he was not always confident about his standing in the world. From his traumatized childhood to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sudden death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced powerful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies. Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches, and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough. Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674072235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. Like the hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted by “what might have been, and what was not.” In his own lifetime, Dickens was without rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.” But he was not always confident about his standing in the world. From his traumatized childhood to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sudden death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced powerful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies. Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches, and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough. Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements.
The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108039359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A three-volume biography of Dickens, published in 1872-4 by one of his closest friends and advisors.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108039359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A three-volume biography of Dickens, published in 1872-4 by one of his closest friends and advisors.
The Life of Charles Dickens: 1852-1870
Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
1852-1870
Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Charles Dickens Books
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646794119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
"...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm." -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872) The Life of Charles Dickens Two Volumes in One (1872) focuses on the English author's life from 1812-1851. Written by Dickens' close friend and advisor John Forster, the biography provides intimate details on the development of some of the greatest fictional characters in literary history, such as David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, as well as insights into Dickens' personal life. Volume II documents his worldwide travels, including extended time spent in Paris, Italy, and Switzerland. This biography of the classic novelist is a must-read for fans of Dickens' characters and stories, English literature, and 18th century history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646794119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
"...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm." -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872) The Life of Charles Dickens Two Volumes in One (1872) focuses on the English author's life from 1812-1851. Written by Dickens' close friend and advisor John Forster, the biography provides intimate details on the development of some of the greatest fictional characters in literary history, such as David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, as well as insights into Dickens' personal life. Volume II documents his worldwide travels, including extended time spent in Paris, Italy, and Switzerland. This biography of the classic novelist is a must-read for fans of Dickens' characters and stories, English literature, and 18th century history.
The life of Charles Dickens by John Forster
Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description