Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742696901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Christmas Stories, Vol. II ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742696901
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas stories. 2 v
Author: Charles DickensChristmas Stories
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Christmas Stories, Vol. I ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742696898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Latter-Day Pamphlets
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2
Author: Joanne ShattockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.
Tie and Trick
Author: Hawley SmartLife of Charls Dickens
Author: MarzialsThe King of Inventors
Author: Catherine PetersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian "Sensation" novelists and author of the famous Woman in White and The Moonstone. An intimate of Dickens and of the Pre-Raphaelites Holman Hunt and Millais, Collins was called the "king of inventors" by his publisher. On the surface, he was charming, unpretentious, and extremely good company, beloved by men and women. Beneath this façade, however, he was a complex and haunted man, addicted to laudanum, and his powerful, often violent novels revealed a dark side of Victorian life. He supported two common-law wives and their children, and as Peters shows, he provoked scandal by refusing to cloak his complicated love affairs in the customary hypocritical pretense of the period. Having discovered a hitherto unknown autobiography by Wilkie Collins's mother, Peters draws on this document and on thousands of Collins's unpublished letters to create this provocative picture of his life and times. She describes in detail the saga of his exhausting struggle for better copyright protection for authors, especially for English authors in the United States. She has also studied the manuscripts of his novels, plays, and stories, including those which he did not complete, finding that some of his neglected novels turn out to be much more interesting than most readers realize today. This edition of the book has been supplemented to include an appendix describing Collins's "Tahitian" novel. Written when he was twenty, the manuscript of this work, Ioláni, was thought to have disappeared, but it has recently been rediscovered and sold to a private collector. For any Collins enthusiast, or for anyone interested in the literary history of the Victorian period, The King of Inventors provides a vivid account of Collins's unusual personal life in the context of his literary and artistic friendships and of newly revealed facts about the two women with whom he shared his "double life." Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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