Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Barnaby Rudge. A tale of two cities. Hard times
Author: Charles DickensA TALE OF TWO CITIES & BARNABY RUDGE (Historical Novels Set In the Time of Great Rebellions)
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026873661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2226
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: "A TALE OF TWO CITIES & BARNABY RUDGE” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. The story begins on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775 where we meet several families; The Willets, The Vardens, The Chesters, and Barnaby Rudge, a simpleton who wanders around with his pet raven, Grip. As the story advances five years to a wintry evening in early 1780, many of the characters get involved in the infamous Protestant riots led by Sir George Gordon. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Hard Times
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles DickensCharles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791092933
Category : Dickens, Charles
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A study guide to Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," featuring a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, summary and analysis, and a selection of critical views.
Bleak House
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
A classic novel about the Chancery court and its cases while dwelling upon the romanic side of familiar things.
The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John ForsterA Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101043679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning. With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson
Charles Dickens' Complete Works
Author: Charles DickensCharles Dickens and Europe
Author: Maxime LeroyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443850020
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved icons of British literature, but many of his novels stem from his connections with Europe. Does it make sense to read him as a European author as well? This book seeks to explore Dickens’ relationship to Europe, from his numerous travels – and subsequent travel writing – to the representation of continental locations in his novels, and to the reciprocal influence between his works and other European texts. Contributions focus on major fictional works like A Tale of Two Cities and Little Dorrit, but also on Dickens’ letters, travel writing and biography. The study begins by delineating the scope of Dickens’ European frame of reference, and goes on to deal with specific geographical and political issues in Italy, France and Switzerland. Finally, it places Dickens’ works within a wider European artistic context through comparisons with Hugo, Tolstoy, Daumier and Grandville.