Author: DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Author: DickensLetters
Author: Charles DickensCharles Dickens Books
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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.
Selected Journalism 1850-1870
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141921897
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons, theatres and Inns of Court, journeys to the continent and his childhood in Kent and London are captured in remarkable pieces such as 'Night Walks', 'On Strike', 'New Year's Day' and 'Lying Awake'. Aiming to catch the imagination of a public besieged by hack journalism, these writings are an extraordinary blend of public and private, news and recollection, reality and fantastic description.
The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensThe Life of Our Lord
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439142580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this charming, simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens hoped to teach his young children about religion and faith. Since he wrote it exclusively for his children, Dickens refused to allow publication. For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.
The Imagined World of Charles Dickens
Author: Mildred NewcombPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814204821
Category : Imagination in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Charles Dickens
Author: Una Pope-HennesyCharles Dickens, 1812-1870
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Death and Mr Pickwick
Author: Stephen JarvisPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448192005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
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.