The Life And Lies Of Charles Dickens

Author : Helena Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639365340

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The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly Pdf

A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.

Author : Helena Kelly
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785781179

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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly Pdf

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547002505

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A Tale of Two Cities + Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Pdf

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations are two most beloved novels by Charles Dickens. Tale of Two Cities is is a novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The main characters — Doctor Alexandre Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton — are all recalled to life, or resurrected, in different ways as turmoil erupts. Great Expectations centers around a poor young man by the name of Pip, who is given the chance to make himself a gentleman by a mysterious benefactor. Great Expectations offers a fascinating view of the differences between classes during the Victorian era, as well as a great sense of comedy and pathos. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407747304

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141971452

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Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin Pdf

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, and many more. At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey.Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. From the award-winning author of Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens: A Life paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading. 'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53045868

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Charles Dickens by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590301352

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The life of Charles Dickens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3550128

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Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Daniel Pool
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439144800

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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Pdf

A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Sir Frank Thomas Marzials
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : UOM:39015031229126

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Life of Charles Dickens by Sir Frank Thomas Marzials Pdf

Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062954961

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The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A.N. Wilson Pdf

Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, 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, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life—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, A. N. 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. The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.

Author : Henry Thomas Taverner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1375602837

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Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life by Henry Thomas Taverner Pdf

Author : John Camden-Hotten
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780898756326

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Charles Dickens by John Camden-Hotten Pdf

This is the earliest Dickens biography, published the same year (1870) that he died.

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0461264277

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf

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