This superb collection of classic Victorian literature features the most notable works of Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist (1839), A Christmas Carol (1843), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and Great Expectations (1861).
This Canterbury Classics edition of Charles Dickens collects some of his most famous and beloved works--The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--in an elegant, leather-bound, keepsake ...
Contains four novels by English author Charles Dickens that addresses the issues of materialism and indifference, poverty and opulence and includes "Great Expectations," "Hard Times," "A Christmas Carol," and "A Tale of Two Cities."
A celebration of his life and work.
Let him ask what is of all English books the book most full of this masterly technical realism, most full of all these arresting details, all these convincing irrelevancies, all these impedimenta of prosaic life; and then as far as truth to ...
Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE YOUTH OF DICKENS There are popular phrases so picturesque that even when they are intentionally funny they are unintentionally poetical.
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
Dickens opened his second American tour with four readings at the Tremont Temple in Boston. The first performance took place on 2 December 1867 with A Christmas Carol and the trial in The Pickwick Papers.
This book explores Dickens's interest in the urban phenomenon, which so marks nineteenth-century culture, and it looks at the vital interconnection between his life and his art.
In manner and dress she owes much to the stylish and mysterious Maria Manning , who was executed in 1849 for the murder of her lover and who faced her death with defiance and calm . Bucket's model , Inspector Field , was involved in the ...
Offers a profile of Dickens's life, interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
Literary historyi&icriticism.
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Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. -
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Charles and Bob Fagin had become so good at their jobs that they were put to work in the window as a kind of advertisement. At the end of the year the family moved back to Camden. It meant Charles now had to walk five miles to work and ...
D 68 (1972), 17–30 (Stokes notes that Georgina's quarterly allowance was increased to £12.10s (from £7.50) from ... in his 9 May letter to Burdett Coutts 'works to negate and denature her'; as I have suggested before: see D and W, 146.
This tradition perhaps begins in John Ruskin's ambivalent approval for Dickens's radical social criticism. ... 32 Though acknowledging the melodramatic excesses of hiswriting, Ruskin believes that these areredeemed by the fundamental ...
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.
This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume.