Charles Dickens: a sketch of his life and works
Author : F. B. Perkins
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : F. B. Perkins
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0141971452
THE ACCLAIMED DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH WRITERS OF ALL TIME Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a journalist, a father of ten, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all, a great novelist. From unpromising beginnings sent to work a black factory age twelve, he rose to such social and literary heights that when he died, the world mourned. Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family, he took up with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. From the award-winning author Claire Tomalin, 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
Author : John Forster
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
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Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833
Author : Dickens
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0062954962
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 : Frederic Beecher Perkins
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Charles Dickens: His Life and Work" by Stephen Butler Leacock. 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 : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480409790
DIVThe engaging biography of one of the most celebrated and enduring authors of Western literature /divDIV Charles Dickens grew up in harsh poverty and became one of the world’s most beloved authors. Biographer Fred Kaplan takes a brilliant, multifaceted approach in his examination of Dickens’s life: his fraught marriage and relationships; the ever-present effects of his humble beginnings; his extensive, but carefully managed, public life; and his friendships with famous writers. Dickens unearths the complex passions that drove both the man and his work, illuminating why the legendary author—just like the characters in his fiction—has remained a mammoth figure in Western literature./div
Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1844
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