Author : Valerie L. Gager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1996-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521455268
This 1996 book traces Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through theatrical, literary and artistic sources.
Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2021-04-21
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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 : Elliot Engel
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743448970
• GEOFFREY CHAUCER • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE • JANE AUSTEN • ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING • EDGAR ALLAN POE • CHARLES DICKENS • CHARLOTTE & EMILY BRONTË • EMILY DICKINSON • MARK TWAIN • GEORGE ELIOT • THOMAS HARDY • OSCAR WILDE • SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE • D. H. LAWRENCE • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD • ERNEST HEMINGWAY • ROBERT FROST They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown...until now! In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a foremost authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed men and women of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain reveals dozens of fascinating anecdotes: • Why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle blamed his wife's death on Sherlock Holmes • How Charles Dickens' pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality • The strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway • How Louisa May Alcott's attempt to get Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn banned backfired...and more! You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
Author : Robert F. Fleissner
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Cumberland Clark
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Robert F. Fleissner
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Criticism
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Thoroughly researched, heavily documented analysis of Dickens's life & work, based upon a great deal of original research into Dickens's papers.
Author : Miriam Margolyes
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780940866
A captivating portrait of some of Charles DickensOCO most memorable female characters presented by popular actress Miriam Margolyes to accompany her hugely successful one-woman show touring the world in 2012. In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to us today, making us laugh and sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens birth, with a one-woman show about DickensOCO women, and this book accompanies the show by building on the script and expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described and analysed so astutely in his novels. ?Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.OCO"
Author : Nicola Baxter
Publisher : Armadillo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780857237569
This anthology presents 17 carefully selected tales from the works of Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, opening up a world of comedy, tragedy and romance. Some of their most memorable plays and stories are retold here, in shortened and simplified form, for a modern readership. Information panels contain enlightening notes about language used, and imaginative pictures are provided by talented children's book illustrator Jenny Thorne. This charming book makes an ideal introduction to these classic authors.
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 9781844287246
Shakespeare: His Work and His World is written by Michael Rosen in an accessible, modern, child-friendly style. As well as facts about his life and the theatre of the day, Rosen provides lively studies of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Tempest. Also included is a detailed analysis of a scene from Romeo and Juliet.
