Dickens' London
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 278
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Author: Charles Dickens
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 278
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith Flanders
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1466835451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Author: Wolf Mankowitz
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of the English author who rose from extreme poverty to become one of the most popular writers of all time.
Author: Andrea Warren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0547395744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author: Daniel Tyler
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781843913528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, a generously illustrated guide to the city that was perhaps the greatest of his characters From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, this guide traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain's best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring more than 40 sites—places of worship and of business, streets and bridges—this comprehensive companion not only locates and illustrates locations from works such as Great Expectations and Little Dorrit but demonstrates how the architecture and landscape of the city influenced Dickens' work throughout his life. Each site is illustrated with substantial quotations from Dickens' own writing about the city he loved.
Author: Alex Werner
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0091943736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for his work, it takes the reader on a memorable and haunting journey, discovering the places and subjects which stimulated his imagination. It includes photographs of famous landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and Westminster Abbey, alongside coaching inns, the Thames before the Embankment was built, the construction of the Metropolitan Underground Line, the docklands that studded the river and the many villages that make up London today.
Author: Lee Jackson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-05-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0747812330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of 'The Inimitable Boz'. Each of the eight walks conjures up forgotten scenes of London life – stage-coaches racing through the Borough; herds of cattle driven through suburban streets to reach Smithfield market; the uproar of a hanging outside Newgate Gaol – together with directions to the most atmospheric and intriguing parts of the Victorian metropolis which have survived into the twenty-first century.
Author: Andrew Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780709088318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens's work and he re-created London in his fiction. This book follows in his footsteps through the streets of the city, exploring the nature and architecture of Victorian London.
Author: Monica Dickens
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780140020861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Wolfreys
Publisher: Edinburgh Critical Studies in
Published: 2015-04-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474402385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms.