The Life Of Charles Dickens

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035538902

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Martin Fido
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1847329438

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The World of Charles Dickens by Martin Fido Pdf

Charles Dickens is one of the most popular and enduring authors in the English language. His novels, short stories and sketches have made an indelible impression on generations of readers. This book presents the author's life and works in a highly illustrated volume that takes a thematic all-encompassing look at this brilliant writer and the society that so influenced his work. It also looks at both the public and the private Dickens- his beliefs, his passions and his relationships. -- from Book Jacket.

Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092001124

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 9780557892907

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The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Ralph J. Crawford,Bruce J. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128309734

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The Extraordinary Life of Charles Dickens by Ralph J. Crawford,Bruce J. Crawford Pdf

Includes full descriptions of over 100 items on show at the Grolier Club, January 26-March 10, 2006. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed in an edition of 525 copies.

Author : Brian Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : OCLC:1029289219

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Charles Dickens by Brian Murray Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798618344319

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A Dinner at Poplar Walk by Charles Dickens Pdf

Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833

Author : John Foster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752319101

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : OCLC:34305380

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Dickens by Fred Kaplan Pdf

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UCAL:B5592945

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The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster Pdf