A Catalogue of the Writings of Charles Dickens in the Library of Harry Elkins Widener
Author: Harvard University. Library. Widener Collection
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 128
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Author: Harvard University. Library. Widener Collection
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 1302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Slater
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 718
ISBN-13: 0300170939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them. Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens' boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny. Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 790
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 316
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0525655956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer—immersing us in one year of his life—from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice. The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty, and disease. It is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickens's career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the world is becoming. The Turning Point transports us into the foggy streets of Dickens's London, closely following the twists and turns of a year that would come to define him and forever alter Britain's relationship with the world. Fully illustrated, and brimming with fascinating details about the larger-than-life man who wrote Bleak House, this is the closest look yet at one of the greatest literary personalities ever to have lived.
Author: Helena Kelly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1639365346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.