Author: Clarice Swisher
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents a series of articles examining the life and works of the English author Charles Dickens, discussing the themes and characters in his many novels, including "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol."
Readings on Charles Dickens
Author: Clarice Swisher
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents a series of articles examining the life and works of the English author Charles Dickens, discussing the themes and characters in his many novels, including "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol."
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Presents a series of articles examining the life and works of the English author Charles Dickens, discussing the themes and characters in his many novels, including "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol."
The Readings of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves
Author: Malcolm Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199236208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199236208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.
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.
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.
The readings of Charles Dickens, as arranged and read by himself. With an intr. by J. Hollingshead
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Little Paul
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Little Dorrit
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Books, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
As for many of Dickens' novels, highlighting social injustices is at the heart of Little Dorrit. His father was imprisoned for debt, and Dickens' shines a spotlight on the fate of many who are unable to repay a debt when the ability to seek work is denied. Amy Dorrit is the youngest daughter of a man imprisoned for debt and is working as a seamstress for Mrs Clennam when Arthur Clennam crosses her path. Will the sweet natured Amy win Arthur's heart? And will they ever escape the shadow of debtors' prison?
Publisher: Books, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
As for many of Dickens' novels, highlighting social injustices is at the heart of Little Dorrit. His father was imprisoned for debt, and Dickens' shines a spotlight on the fate of many who are unable to repay a debt when the ability to seek work is denied. Amy Dorrit is the youngest daughter of a man imprisoned for debt and is working as a seamstress for Mrs Clennam when Arthur Clennam crosses her path. Will the sweet natured Amy win Arthur's heart? And will they ever escape the shadow of debtors' prison?
The Public Readings
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A scholarly edition of public readings by Charles Dickens. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
A scholarly edition of public readings by Charles Dickens. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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
Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description