Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Nonesuch Dickens: The Pickwick Papers. 1937
The Nonesuch Dickens: The Pickwick Papers. 1937
Author: Charles DickensThe Nonesuch Dickens
Author: Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers. 1937
Author: Charles DickensThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Charles Dickens' Complete Works
Author: Charles DickensThe Microbook Library of English Literature, Basic Collection: Author Catalog and Title Catalog
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Dombey and Son
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........
Dickens, Death, and Christmas
Author: Robert L. PattenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019267711X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? This book starts at the Paris Morgue and takes Dickens through his Christmas experiences from childhood and beyond, his celebrations of the season, and the sorrows that he often reviews in the New Year. Robert L. Patten weaves together Dickens's life, career, writings, journalism, travel, theatrical presentations, and religious convictions to offer a richly designed and entertaining narrative, fulsomely illustrated, of the manifold ways Dickens figures the spirit and traditions of the winter holidays in Victorian England. Both the gothic of ghosts and retribution and what he saw as the grotesque of lower-class enjoyment surface importantly in Dickens's fantasies. This volume discloses many hitherto overlooked connections between Dickens's writings and life and arrives at some surprising conclusions about Dickens's imagination, understanding of the conditions and meaning of Christian life, and the failures of British society to meet the pressing needs of its people. Not only does it address the public reception of these writings; it also tracks the responses and understandings of Dickens's illustrators, friends who found novel ways of telling, and mis-telling, the stories.
Dickens
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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