Shakespeare and Dickens
Title | Shakespeare and Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie L. Gager |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1996-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521455268 |
This 1996 book traces Dickens' interest in Shakespeare through his own reading and performance and through theatrical, literary and artistic sources.
Charles Dickens Books
Title | Charles Dickens Books PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2021-04-21 |
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The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain
Title | A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain PDF eBook |
Author | Elliot Engel |
Publisher | Gallery Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2002-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780743448970 |
• GEOFFREY CHAUCER • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE • JANE AUSTEN • ROBERT BROWNING & ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING • EDGAR ALLAN POE • CHARLES DICKENS • CHARLOTTE & EMILY BRONTË • EMILY DICKINSON • MARK TWAIN • GEORGE ELIOT • THOMAS HARDY • OSCAR WILDE • SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE • D. H. LAWRENCE • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD • ERNEST HEMINGWAY • ROBERT FROST They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown...until now! In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a foremost authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed men and women of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain reveals dozens of fascinating anecdotes: • Why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle blamed his wife's death on Sherlock Holmes • How Charles Dickens' pet launched Edgar Allan Poe on his way to literary immortality • The strange connection between Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway • How Louisa May Alcott's attempt to get Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn banned backfired...and more! You'll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
Dickens and Shakespeare
Title | Dickens and Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Robert F. Fleissner |
Publisher | Ardent Media |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1965 |
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Shakespeare & Dickens
Title | Shakespeare & Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | Cumberland Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1918 |
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Shakespeare and Dickens
Title | Shakespeare and Dickens PDF eBook |
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Pages | 39 |
Release | 19?? |
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The Complete Works of Charles Dickens
Title | The Complete Works of Charles Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Dickens |
Publisher | Cosimo, Inc. |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1616400048 |
It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to Western civilization on the whole. He is arguably the first fiction writer to have become an international celebrity. He popularized episodic fiction and the cliffhanger, which had a profound influence on the development of film and television. He is entirely responsible for the popular image of Victorian London that still lingers today, and his characters-from Oliver Twist to Ebenezer Scrooge, from Miss Havisham to Uriah Heep-have become not merely iconic, but mythic. But it was his stirring portraits of ordinary people-not the upper classes or the aristocracy-and his fervent cries for social, moral, and legal justice for the working poor, and in particular for poor children, in the grim early decades of the Industrial Revolution that powerfully impacted social concerns well into the 20th century. Without Charles Dickens, we may never have seen the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Upton Sinclair, or even Bob Dylan. Here, in 30 beautiful volumes-complete with all the original illustrations-is every published word written by one of the most important writers ever. The essential collector's set will delight anyone who cherishes English literature...and who takes pleasure in constantly rediscovering its joys. This volume contains Dickens's famous 1843 novel A Christmas Carol plus his lesser-known tales of the winter holiday: The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).