Books written by Paul Schlicke

  • Dickens and Popular Entertainment

    Warwick was famous for its racing: three-day race meetings in both spring and autumn were well established by 1834. Undoubtedly the most memorable single event in Warwick entertainment annals was the lion-baiting staged by Wombwell, ...

  • Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens

    The Oxford Companion to Dickens (published in hardback as The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) offers in one volume a lively and authoritative compendium of information about Dickens: his life, his works, his reputation and his ...

  • The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition

    Great fanfare preceded the 1937—8 Nonesuch Edition. The 128-page Nonesuch Retrospectus and Prospectus (1937) contained 'Charles Dickens and His Illustrators' by Arthur Waugh; 'A Bibliographical List of the Original Illustrations to ...

  • Coffee with Dickens

    This quiet talk with Dickens' ghost conveys all the 19th-century author's vigor, warmth, and humanity--and provides a scintillating tour through his life, career, eccentricities, and trenchant opinions.

  • Simply Dickens

    Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson. Dickens at Work. London: Methuen, 1957. Simon Callow. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.