Mad As The Dickens

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625670465

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Mad as the Dickens by Toni L. P. Kelner Pdf

Murder takes center stage in a Southern small town’s Christmas play in this cozy mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author of Down Home Murder. Laura Fleming’s theater-loving husband, Richard, is getting an early Christmas present—he’s been asked to direct a production of A Christmas Carol in Laura’s hometown of Byerly, North Carolina. To Richard’s annoyance, the play is beset by practical jokes and glitches, and Seth Murdstone makes an unconvincing Scrooge. Unfortunately, he makes an all-too-convincing corpse. When Seth is found murdered backstage, Laura agrees to investigate. This time, she has an unexpected sidekick: Byerly’s police chief Junior Norton, who’s determined to solve the case before her ambitious deputy does. Junior’s inside information is a definite boon—for one thing, she knows that Seth was a longtime moonshiner. The man had a veritable stockingful of secrets, and between grudge-filled rivals and feuding family members, there are plenty of likely suspects. But which one decided to bring the curtain down on Seth, and can Laura and Junior stop the culprit from staging an unwanted encore performance? Praise for Mad as the Dickens “Lots of small-town bickering, family gossip, and not a few private agendas make for an entertaining Southern mystery.” —Library Journal

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726586855

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A Madman's Manuscript by Charles Dickens Pdf

"It is a grand thing to be mad" A rich, self-confessed madman meets a poor girl and, wishing to marry her, he puts on a "normal" persona and a fake smile. The girl’s family pushes her into his arms, but when the madman finds out that she is in love with someone else his true colours start to show. Similar to Joker (2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix, A Madman's Manuscript gives us an understanding of the inner workings of a seriously delusional and mentally ill person. Unnerving but very fascinating. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English author, social critic, and philanthropist. Much of his writing first appeared in small instalments in magazines and was widely popular. Among his most famous novels are Oliver Twist (1839), David Copperfield (1850), and Great Expectations (1861).

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555045184

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Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood]. by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Philip Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349045914

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Dickens by Philip Collins Pdf

Author : Kathryn Chittick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521381741

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Dickens and the 1830s by Kathryn Chittick Pdf

Kathryn Chittick examines the early career of Charles Dickens in light of the movements in literary criticism and the rise of the novel and Victorian literary canon.

Author : Mary Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Ada Nisbet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520374577

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Dickens and Ellen Ternan by Ada Nisbet Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fleming, Laura (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1575666863

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Death of a Damn Yankee by Toni L. P. Kelner Pdf

In Byerly, North Carolina, northerners Marshall and Grace Saunders try to buy out the town's largest mill. Laura Fleming is surprised when the mill's president asks her to look into the Saunders' backgrounds, even though the owner of the mill wants to sell. Matters grow more complicated when Marshall Saunders is found murdered and police name Laura's cousin Linwood as the prime suspect.

Author : Joachim Frenk,Lena Steveker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501736292

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Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change by Joachim Frenk,Lena Steveker Pdf

Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars—Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy—suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 5867 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811503

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DICKENS'S LONDON - Premium Collection of 11 Novels & 80+ Tales (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "DICKENS'S LONDON" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit David Copperfield Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend Short Stories Sketches by Boz The Beadle. The Parish Engine. The Schoolmaster. The Curate. The Old Lady. The Half-pay Captain The Four Sisters The Election for Beadle The Broker's Man The Ladies' Societies Our Next-door Neighbour The Streets – morning The Streets – night Shops and their Tenants Scotland Yard Seven Dials Meditations in Monmouth-Street Hackney-coach Stands Doctors' Commons London Recreations The River Astley's Greenwich Fair Private Theatres Vauxhall Gardens by Day Early Coaches Omnibuses The Last Cab-driver, and the First Omnibus cad A Parliamentary Sketch Public Dinners The First of May Brokers' and Marine-store Shops Gin-shops The Pawnbroker's Shop Criminal Courts A Visit to Newgate Thoughts about People A Christmas Dinner The New Year Miss Evans and the Eagle The Parlour Orator The Hospital Patient The Misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce The Mistaken Milliner The Dancing Academy Shabby-Genteel People Making a Night of It The Prisoners' Van The Boarding-house Mr. Minns and his Cousin Sentiment The Tuggses at Ramsgate Horatio Sparkins The Black Veil The Steam Excursion The Great Winglebury Duel Mrs. Joseph Porter A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle The Bloomsbury Christening The Drunkard's death Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey's Clock Sunday Under Three Heads Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Author : David D. Oberhelman
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : York Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016899200

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Dickens in Bedlam by David D. Oberhelman Pdf

Author : Amy S. Watkin
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9780791098509

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Bloom's how to Write about Charles Dickens by Amy S. Watkin Pdf

Few writers have captured the essence of 19th-century London the way Charles Dickens has. A master of extreme situations, Dickens is known for his colorful and often seedy characters and the elaborate settings of his works. ""How to Write about Charles Dickens"" offers valuable suggestions for paper topics, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Dickens. This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and his major works.

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674072237

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Becoming Dickens by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Pdf

This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908759009

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Charles Dickens, A Very Peculiar History by Fiona Macdonald Pdf

Taking a unique look at one of the most acclaimed and best-loved English writers of the nineteenth century, 'Charles Dickens, A Very Peculiar History' asks why, what, where, how and who the Dickens was Charles Dickens? Why did he keep a pet raven that pecked at his children's shins? Why did he have a tunnel built under the road in front of his country house? Was his dying corpse really carried from his mistress's house where he collapsed to his family home, so that he could die 'respectably'? Find out the answers to these questions and even more bizarre ones throughout the book, which features quirky stories and fascinating trivia about this singularly complex man and consummate artist.

Author : Samantha Silva
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250154033

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Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva Pdf

“A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It’s as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original; it’s all heart, and I read it in a couple of ebullient, Christmassy gulps.” —Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See Laced with humor, rich historical detail from Charles Dickens’ life, and clever winks to his work, Samantha Silva's Mr. Dickens and His Carol is an irresistible new take on a cherished classic. Charles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His newest book is an utter flop, the critics have turned against him, relatives near and far hound him for money. While his wife plans a lavish holiday party for their ever-expanding family and circle of friends, Dickens has visions of the poor house. But when his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book to save them all from financial ruin, he refuses. And a serious bout of writer’s block sets in. Frazzled and filled with self-doubt, Dickens seeks solace in his great palace of thinking, the city of London itself. On one of his long night walks, in a once-beloved square, he meets the mysterious Eleanor Lovejoy, who might be just the muse he needs. As Dickens’ deadlines close in, Eleanor propels him on a Scrooge-like journey that tests everything he believes about generosity, friendship, ambition, and love. The story he writes will change Christmas forever.