The Dickens Dictionary
Title | The Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Sutherland |
Publisher | Icon Books Ltd |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1848313926 |
For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being? For the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens' work, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few - John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to the great man's work. Excerpt: HANDS; Every Dickens novel has a master image. In Our Mutual Friend it is the river. In Bleak House it is the fog. In Little Dorrit, it is the prison. In Great Expectations it is the hand. We often know much more about the principals' hands in that novel than their faces. Who, when the name Magwitch is mentioned, does not think of those murderous 'large brown veinous hands'? Jaggers? One's nose twitches---scented soap (the lawyer, like Pontius Pilate, is forever washing his hands). Miss Havisham? Withered claws. So it goes on...
The Dickens Dictionary
Title | The Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert A. Pierce |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 2013-05-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486141470 |
This definitive reference covers every novel, short story, play, and poem. Includes extensive quotations from the original works, 26 illustrations, and an Index to Characters with an amazing 1,899 entries.
The Dickens Dictionary
Title | The Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Ashville Pierce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1914 |
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The Dickens Dictionary
Title | The Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Ashville Pierce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1872 |
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Dickens Dictionary
Title | Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Dale |
Publisher | Wordsworth Editions |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2004-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781840223071 |
Few Victorian writers are as well remembered as Charles Dickens (1812-70). And many of his characters have been widely known since they first saw the light of day in books such as The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
The Dickens Dictionary
Title | The Dickens Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Ashville Pierce |
Publisher | |
Pages | 573 |
Release | 1876 |
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The Dickens Dictionary; a Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens
Title | The Dickens Dictionary; a Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert A. (Gilbert Ashville) Pierce |
Publisher | Hardpress Publishing |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 2012-08-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781290616218 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.