After Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798736424061

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A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)) by Charles Dickens Pdf

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.

Author : Keith Easley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004543720

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Choice in Charles Dickens's Later Novels by Keith Easley Pdf

We read the book, and the book is reading us. In his later novels, Charles Dickens uses the interaction between characters and their audiences within the fiction to dramatise his growing understanding of the pivotal role of spectatorship and choice in a more democratic society. Egotists of all stripes, intent on bending the world to their singular will, would appropriate the power of spectatorship by taking command of the detachment necessary for choice. Dickens’s pluralistic art of sameness and difference redefines that detachment, and liberates choice both inside and outside the novels, for the relationship between characters and their audiences within the narratives actually inscribes our own relationship with them in the performance of reading, a reflective doubling of the fiction upon the reader across time with moral consequences for our spectatorship of our own lives.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142585

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The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens Pdf

Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this charming, simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens hoped to teach his young children about religion and faith. Since he wrote it exclusively for his children, Dickens refused to allow publication. For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.

Author : Jane R. Cohen,Jane Marjorie Rabb
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Illustration of books
ISBN : 9780814202845

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Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators by Jane R. Cohen,Jane Marjorie Rabb Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433074954300

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Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Robert Garnett
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453271575

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Charles Dickens in Love by Robert Garnett Pdf

In celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’s birth, here is Dickens as you have never seen him before: an intimate and engaging portrait of the great author and the women he loved. “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips whereI have opened my heart.” —Charles Dickens When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world—the preeminent Victorian celebrity, universally mourned as both a noble spirit and the greatest of novelists. Yet when the first person named in his will turned out to be an unknown woman named Ellen Ternan, only a handful of people had any idea who she was. Of his romance with Ellen, Dickens had written, “it belongs to my life and probably will only die out of the same with the proprietor,” and so it was—until his death she remained the most important person in his life. She was not the first woman who had fired his imagination. As a young man he had fallen deeply in love with a woman who “pervaded every chink and crevice” of his mind for three years, Maria Beadnell, and when she eventually jilted him he vowed that “I never can love any human creature but yourself.” A few years later he was stunned by the sudden death of his young sister-in-law, Mary Scott Hogarth, and worshiped her memory for the rest of his life. “I solemnly believe that so perfect a creature never breathed,” he declared, and when he died over thirty years later he was still wearing her ring. Charles Dickens has no rival as the most fertile creative imagination since William Shakespeare, and no one influenced his imagination more powerfully than these three women, his muses and teachers in the school of love. Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Dickens’s life and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all too well, if not always wisely.

Author : John Forster (Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000000431

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple.) Pdf

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261377

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Dickens's Villains by Juliet John Pdf

This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.

Author : Mary Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168256

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Charles Dickens's Great Expectations by Mary Hammond Pdf

Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 December 1860 and 3 August 1861. In this new publishing and reception history, Mary Hammond demonstrates that while Dickens’s thirteenth novel can tell us a great deal about the dynamic mid-Victorian moment into which it was born, its afterlife beyond the nineteenth-century Anglophone world reveals the full extent of its versatility. Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship and using newly discovered archival material, Hammond covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012. Appendices include contemporary reviews and comprehensive bibliographies of adaptations and translations. The book is a rich resource for scholars and students of Dickens; of comparative literature; and of publishing, readership, and media history.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035538969

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster Pdf

Author : Lucinda Hawksley
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526735669

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Dickens and Travel by Lucinda Hawksley Pdf

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for year, and spent several months in Switzerland. Some years later he took up residence in Paris and Boulogne (where he lived in secret with his lover). In addition to travelling widely in Europe, he also toured America twice, performed onstage in Canada and, before his untimely death, was planning a tour of Australia. Dickens and Travel enters into the world of the Victorian traveller and looks at how Charles Dickens’s journeys influenced his writing and enriched his life.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798741923726

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Charles Dickens Books by Charles Dickens Pdf

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.

Author : William R. Hughes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547231226

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A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. Hughes Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land" (Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected) by William R. Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : James Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300021517

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Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens by James Cook Pdf

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : UOMDLP:ach0321:0002.001

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf