Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Dickens' Works
Author: Charles DickensHard Times
Author: Charles DickensCharles Dickens Books
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.
Themes in Dickens
Author: Peter J. PonzioPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The Victorian age is often portrayed as an era of repressive social mores. Yet this simplified view ignores the context of Great Britain's profound shift, through rapid industrialization, from rural to metropolitan life during this time. Throughout his career, Charles Dickens addressed the numerous changes occurring in Victorian society. His portrayals of organized religion, class distinction, worker's rights, prison reform and rampant poverty resonated with readers experiencing social upheaval. Focusing on his novels, nonfiction writing, speeches and personal correspondence, this book explores Dickens's use of these themes as both literary devices and as a means to effect social progress.
Dickens in Search of Himself
Author: Gwen WatkinsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389206439
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.
Dombey and Son
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
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........
A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of t+E3he French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
Bloom's how to Write about Charles Dickens
Author: Amy S. WatkinPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0791098508
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Few writers have captured the essence of 19th-century London the way Charles Dickens has. A master of extreme situations, Dickens is known for his colorful and often seedy characters and the elaborate settings of his works. ""How to Write about Charles Dickens"" offers valuable suggestions for paper topics, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Dickens. This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and his major works.
Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens
Author: Robert BarnardPublisher: Bergen : Universitetsforlaget ; New York : Humanities Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Dickens in Search of Himself
Author: Gwen WatkinsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349085502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.