Charles Dickens and Friends

Charles Dickens and Friends
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Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 0744598389
ISBN-13 : 9780744598384
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Charles Dickens and Friends by : Marcia Williams

Five lively retellings of classic Dickens - Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities. All created in Marcia Williams' distinctive comic-strip style.

Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:255341663
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Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Mutual Friend by : Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9780547395746
ISBN-13 : 0547395744
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by : Andrea Warren

The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

A Christmas with Dickens

A Christmas with Dickens
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Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435053952198
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Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis A Christmas with Dickens by : Charles Dickens

The Other Dickens

The Other Dickens
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9780801465147
ISBN-13 : 0801465141
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Other Dickens by : Lillian Nayder

Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered-unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted. In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown. Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.

The Life of Charles Dickens

The Life of Charles Dickens
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Total Pages : 680
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ISBN-10 : UCBK:C065193633
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Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of Charles Dickens by : John Forster

Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators

Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators
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Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 9780814202845
ISBN-13 : 0814202845
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators by : Jane R. Cohen

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))

A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz))
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Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9798736424061
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Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis A Tale of Two Cities Illustrated by (Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz)) by : Charles Dickens

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.

Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son
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Total Pages : 564
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433074954730
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Dombey and Son by : Charles Dickens

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........