Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Works of Charles Dickens: The uncommercial traveler [and additional Christmas stories
Author: Charles DickensThe Uncommercial Traveller Illustrated
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens, published in 1860-1861.In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School London in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer. The persona sits well with a writer who liked to travel, not only as a tourist, but also to research and report what he found visiting Europe, America and giving book readings throughout Britain. He did not seem content to rest late in his career when he had attained wealth and comfort and continued travelling locally, walking the streets of London in the mould of the flâneur, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets'. He often suffered from insomnia and his night-time wanderings gave him an insight into some of the hidden aspects of Victorian London, details of which he also incorporated into his novels.
The Haunted House
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: United Holdings Group
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensThe Uncommercial Traveller
Author: Charles DickensChristmas Stories
Author: Charles DickensWorks of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensThe Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192883062
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Uncommercial Traveller is a remarkable display of creative journalism from Dickens's final decade, balancing Sketches by Boz at the beginning of his career. The 37 short papers, which first appeared in his weekly journal All The Year Round, offer sensitive and penetrating perspectives on London, Britain, and France in the 1860s. In the company of the Traveller, readers undertake a series of journeys. We visit the scene of a disastrous shipwreck on Anglesey, the docklands at Liverpool, and the Chatham dockyard. We accompany the Traveller as he returns to the scene of his early childhood in 'Dullborough'. We cross the Channel in atrocious conditions, and we explore 'the French-Flemish country'. Twice, we join the local crowds for the gruesome entertainment offered by the Paris morgue. Nearer to Dickens's Covent Garden base we attend a popular theatre for a performance and a Sunday sermon. We visit a children's hospital, a lead factory, and a naval school. We tramp the city by night. We have repeated problems with restaurants. We hear weird stories, meet odd characters, and much more. Full of humour, sentiment, quirkiness; supremely assured in their command of style; astonishingly varied: these papers take a worthy place alongside the Dickens's late fictional masterpieces Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend. This is the first fully critical edition of The Uncommercial Traveller, based on detailed study of the surviving densely worked manuscripts and the early printed texts. The edition includes a full analytical essay, textual notes, and detailed explanatory notes, as well as a glossary of unusual terms and words used in senses likely to be unfamiliar to modern readers.
Charles Dickens' Complete Works
Author: Charles DickensScenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
'Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens' is a collection of illustrations inspired by Dickens' novels, featuring the work of talented artists such as Frederick Barnard, Hablot Knight Browne, and Edward Gurdon Dalziel. Originally published in the 'Household Edition' after Dickens' death, this collection offers a new life to characters that are already immortally famous. Barnard's exceptional pictures are the highlight of this volume, as he takes the types already created by his predecessors and transfers them from the realm of caricature to that of portraiture. This book is a must-have for lovers of Dickens' novels and those interested in exceptional artwork.