The Artful Dickens

The Artful Dickens
Title The Artful Dickens PDF eBook
Author John Mullan
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 449
Release 2020
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1408866811

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An essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. In thirteen entertaining and insightful essays, Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens's eccentric genius, from his delight in cliches to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences

Dickens Redressed

Dickens Redressed
Title Dickens Redressed PDF eBook
Author Alexander Welsh
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 252
Release 2000-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780300082036

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When he wrote Hard Times - which can be considered an epilogue to the much longer Bleak House - Dickens was able to conceive a plot neither centered around a hero nor fueled by the kind of wish fulfillment that structure had implied.

Hard Times

Hard Times
Title Hard Times PDF eBook
Author Charles Dickens
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1854
Genre
ISBN

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What-the-Dickens

What-the-Dickens
Title What-the-Dickens PDF eBook
Author Gregory Maguire
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 306
Release 2007-09-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0763629618

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As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.

Dickens and Prince

Dickens and Prince
Title Dickens and Prince PDF eBook
Author Nick Hornby
Publisher Penguin
Pages 193
Release 2022-11-15
Genre Art
ISBN 0593541839

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“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue "This pairing -- two magnificent creatives, centuries and genres apart -- makes stunning sense in the hands of their wisest, wittiest fan." -- People From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely—until it’s not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with a fan’s admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries—each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time. When Prince’s 1987 record Sign o’ the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren’t on the original— Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music. Examining the two artists’ personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries “lit up the world.” In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art.

The Friendly Dickens

The Friendly Dickens
Title The Friendly Dickens PDF eBook
Author Norrie Epstein
Publisher Viking Adult
Pages 456
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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You might have read him in class, but the Victorians read Charles Dickens like we watch Melrose Place, and The Friendly Dickens will show you why. It is the ultimate pop reference to the Dickensian world of shrouded sex and ostentatious death, a book that will have you running in delight to dust off your Dickens.Norrie Epstein--whose The Friendly Shakespeare was called by The New York Times "spirited, informative and provocative"--opens up Dickens's life and times in all its squalor and glory, including his rise to greatness and occasional lapses from grace. She considers his works, major and minor, in decided lively fashion, not just reading, but reading between the lines:* Was Oliver Twist's Fagin a pederast?* What made A Christmas Carol's Tiny Tim so darn tiny?* How many of Dickens's child characters met an untimely end? (Hint: plenty.)Full of humor, skepticism, and expert opinions, with eye- catching illustrations, plenty of quotes, and sidebars on nearly every page, you will quickly become a Dickens authority--even if you've never read a word.

Christmas Books

Christmas Books
Title Christmas Books PDF eBook
Author Charles Dickens
Publisher
Pages 492
Release 1902
Genre Christmas stories
ISBN

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