The Life of Charles Dickens: 1842-1852
Author | : John Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : John Forster |
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Claire Tomalin |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141036931 |
Chronicles the life of the nineteenth-century literary master from the challenges he faced as the imprisoned son of a profligate father, his rise to one of England's foremost novelists, and the personal demons that challenged his relationships.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1842 |
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Author | : Martin Fido |
Publisher | : Carlton Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781847329431 |
Charles Dickens is one of the most popular and enduring authors in the English language. His novels, short stories and sketches have made an indelible impression on generations of readers. This book presents the author's life and works in a highly illustrated volume that takes a thematic all-encompassing look at this brilliant writer and the society that so influenced his work. It also looks at both the public and the private Dickens- his beliefs, his passions and his relationships. -- from Book Jacket.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2013-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439142580 |
Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this charming, simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens hoped to teach his young children about religion and faith. Since he wrote it exclusively for his children, Dickens refused to allow publication. For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.
Author | : A.N. Wilson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : 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 | : Gary L. Colledge |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144123778X |
Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
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Complete and unabridged paperback edition. First Published 1833
Author | : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674072235 |
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
Author | : Ralph J. Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Includes full descriptions of over 100 items on show at the Grolier Club, January 26-March 10, 2006. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed in an edition of 525 copies.