Death and Mr Pickwick
Death and Mr Pickwick

Author: Stephen Jarvis

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 1448192005

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Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown It is 31 March 1836. A new monthly periodical is launched entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Conceived and created by the artist Robert Seymour, it contains four of his illustrations. The words to accompany them are written by a young journalist, under the pen-name Boz. The journalist's real name is Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers soon becomes a phenomenal, unprecedented sensation, read and discussed by the entire British Isles. Before long, its success is worldwide. Stephen Jarvis's novel tells of the dawning of the age of global celebrity. It is a story of colossal triumph and of the depths of tragedy, based on real events - and an expose of how an ambitious young writer stole another man's ideas.

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Author: Adam Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108493076

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Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))
A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.

Charles Dickens's American Audience
Charles Dickens's American Audience

Author: Robert McParland

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0739118587

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From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together contemporary reactions to Dickens and his works, this book paints a portrait of the American people and of American society and culture from 1837 to the turn of the twentieth century. It is in this view of nineteenth-century America--its people and their values, their reading habits and cultural views, the scenarios of their everyday lives even in the face of the drastic changes of the emerging nation--that Charles Dickens's American Audience makes its greatest impact.