Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Heart of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Letters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1941-1865
Author: Charles DickensLetters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865. Selected and edited from the collection in the Pierpont-Morgan Library, with a critical and biographical introduction by Edgar Johnson. [With a portrait.]
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Author: Charles DickensLetters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865
Author: Charles DickensLetters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts
Author: Charles John Huffam DickensPublisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Letters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865... Edited... by Edgar Johnson
Author: Charles DickensThe Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Author: Jenny HartleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191635847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters. From over fourteen thousand, four hundred and fifty have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of 'the Sparkler of Albion'. Dickens was a man with ten times the energy of ordinary mortals. There seem to have been twice the number of hours in his day, and he threw himself into letter-writing as he did into everything else. This eagerly awaited selection takes us straight to the heart of his life, to show us Dickens at first hand. Here he is writing out of the heat of the moment: as a novelist, journalist, and magazine editor; as a social campaigner and traveller in Europe and America, and as friend, lover, husband, and father. Reading and writing letters punctuated the rhythms of Dickens's day. 'I walk about brimful of letters', he told a friend. He claimed to write 'at the least, a dozen a day'. Sometimes it was a chore but more often a pleasure: an outlet for high spirits, sparkling wit, and caustic commentary - always as seen through his highly individual and acutely observing eye. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.
The Heart of Charles Dickens, as Revealed in His Letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts
Author: Charles DickensThe Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199591415
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.
God and Charles Dickens
Author: Gary L. ColledgePublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 144123778X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.