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Author: Robert L. Patten Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107380014 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 427
Book Description
Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, and later to contain and extinguish him. His revision of Dickens' biography in the context of early Victorian social and political history and print culture opens up a more unstable, yet more fascinating, portrait of Dickens. The book tells the story of how Dickens created an authorial persona that highlighted certain attributes and concealed others about his life, talent and publications. This complicated narrative of struggle, determination, dead ends and new beginnings is as gripping as one of Dickens' own novels.
Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library ISBN: 9781509854288 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colorful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance. Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by Boz. Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B. Priestley, these thirteen marvelous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshankâs evocative illustrations.
Author: Robert L. Patten
Author: Robert L. Patten
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Robert L. Patten
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens