The Curious World of Dickens
The Curious World of Dickens

Author: Clive Hurst

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851243846

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Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter explores contemporary images relating to salient topics of the Victorian age such as the public entertainments of London and the domestic pastimes of its inhabitants; the coming of the railways (which were to transform Victorian England in fiction and in fact); school life for children, and conditions in the workhouses and prisons which loom so large in many of the novels and which blighted Dickens's own childhood. Dickens was an incorrigible showman, and this book also explores his role as actor-manager of theatrical productions, as originator of the myriad stage adaptations of his books, and as supreme interpreter of them himself in the public readings which came to dominate his later years. Reproducing key extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers as they appeared weekly and monthly in the bookshops, their crucial illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, is a unique approach which breathes life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters.

What-the-Dickens
What-the-Dickens

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2010-04-06

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0763651710

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"Gregory Maguire does for the dark and stormy night what he did for witches in Wicked." — The New York Times Book Review A terrible storm is raging, and Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s thestory of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee working as an Agent of Change — trading coins for teeth — and learns of a dutiful tribe of tooth fairies to which he hopes to belong. As his tale unfolds, however, both What-the-Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and far less sure than they ever imagined.

Curious World of Lisa
Curious World of Lisa

Author: Deeksha Gupta

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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“Lisa, honey you’re getting late.” shouted Mrs. Philips. “Coming” said Lisa “Bye Leona,” she added. Lisa was in eight grade and was going to be 13 in two week’s time. She was pretty and smart with wavy blond hair and blue eyes. She went to St. Michael School. Leona was her imaginary friend and one of the most important things in her life.

Moral Art of Dickens
Moral Art of Dickens

Author: Barbara Hardy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-11-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0567620301

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Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Author: Margaret Willes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0300221398

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Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence

The Old Curiosity Shop (World Classics, Unabridged)
The Old Curiosity Shop (World Classics, Unabridged)

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9789386423603

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The Old Curiosity Shop is a story of the road, a genre at which Dickens excelled. Little Nell and her grandfather, pursued relentlessly through England by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp, meet a fascinating variety of vividly portrayed characters, including Mrs. Jarley, and Codlin and Short, the Punch and Judy men.

Oliver Twist + The Old Curiosity Shop: 2 Unabridged Classics, Illustrated
Oliver Twist + The Old Curiosity Shop: 2 Unabridged Classics, Illustrated

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-18

Total Pages: 1402

ISBN-13:

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Oliver Twist + The Old Curiosity Shop (2 Unabridged Classics, Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, published by in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin. The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1841. The plot follows the plight of a homeless thirteen year-old girl, Nell Trent, and her aged Grandfather, as they wander the countryside of England, keeping one step ahead of their horrible dwarf nemesis, Daniel Quilp. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.

Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel
Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel

Author: Graham Daldry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1317204107

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First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our understanding of the novels, to lead us to see them as failures of artistic unity. In this book the author seeks to address this question of unity and find a terminology that can treat language, plot and representation of reality as a coherent imaginative effort. This thesis is worked out in detail with reference to several of the novels, and represents a challenging re-evaluation Dickens’ achievement as a novelist. This book will be if interest to student of literature.