Apprenticed To The Artful Dodger

Author : Charlton Daines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781712466605
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apprenticed to The Artful Dodger written by Charlton Daines and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combined edition of adventures of the Artful Dodger through Dickensian London!Jack Dawkins: Jack Dawkins, once known as the Artful Dodger in the streets of London, was sent to Australia on a prison ship when he was little more than a boy. Now he has returned to find that London has changed while the boy has turned into a man. Jack has remodeled himself as a gentleman thief, but there are complications as remnants of his past come back to plague him and he finds himself mentoring a boy who reminds him of his younger self. A Christmas With The Dodger: Christmas 1899 is approaching and Reg Dawkins is facing a lifetime dilemma. The Turn of the Century is a time of new beginnings and Reg is caught between nostalgia for his misspent youth and the desire to please his adopted mother by becoming a successful but honest man.A chance encounter with an old friend takes him back into the criminal society that he thought he had escaped, but it isn't as simple as making a choice of his own path. With the dawn of a new century before him and dangerous villains chasing behind, Reg goes to the one person he can trust for advice... Jack Dawkins, The Artful Dodger himself.

Author : Sara Martín
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559300
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film written by Sara Martín and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are men represented on the printed page, the stage and the screen? What do these representations say about masculinity in the past, the present, and the future? The twelve essays in this volume explore the different ways in which men and masculinity have been represented, from the plays of William Shakespeare to the science fiction of Richard K. Morgan, passing through classic fiction by Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens, and popular favourites by Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov, without forgetting the Star Wars saga. Collectively, these essays argue that, although much has been written about men, it has been done from a perspective that does not see masculinity as a specific feature in need of critical appraisal. Men need to be made aware of how they are represented in order to alter the toxic patriarchal models handed down to them and even break the extant binary gender models. For that, it is important that men distinguish patriarchy from masculinity, as is done here, and form anti-patriarchal alliances with each other and with women. This book is, then, an invitation to men’s liberation from patriarchy by raising an awareness of its crippling constraints.

Author : David Guenther
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538189682
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art Dealer's Apprentice written by David Guenther and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Dealer’s Apprentice tells the story of how the author moved to New York in 1989 as a young Midwesterner, found a job at an Upper East Side gallery, and became the protégé of Carla Panicali, an Italian countess and major international art world figure. From Carla – an extraordinary woman whom he deeply admired – the author learned to navigate the treacherous waters of authenticity, power and money in the art business and his own life. As gallery director, he gradually piloted the gallery through a sea of fakes, frauds, and unscrupulous colleagues, competitors, collectors and experts, until the art market crashed, and in the ensuing crisis, in the increasingly money-driven art world of the 1990s, he came to question even the authenticity of his friendship with Carla. In The Art Dealer’s Apprentice, the author recounts how he learned the New York art business from the inside, including the roles of dealers, auction houses, runners, collectors and experts; the personal histories of famous artists and the art historical importance and salability of their work; and how paintings and sculptures were (or were not) authenticated and sold, often based, surprisingly, on factors having little to do with the artwork itself. The author also details how international business was done, in some cases through illicit transport of artworks, payoffs to experts, and Swiss bank accounts. Increasingly disillusioned, the author ultimately concludes that by the early 1990s, the art business was no longer really about art.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Cregan
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473908396
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Childhoods written by Kate Cregan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exciting and engagingly written book. The case studies are intriguing and the discussion of previous theories impeccable." - Dr. Heather Montgomery, The Open University "What is a child? Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert begin this path-breaking and compelling work with a deceptively simple question. From this seemingly straightforward formulation, they unravel, interrogate and engage with some of the most pressing issues related to children in the early 21st century... This book is an absolute must for scholars in all the fields of childhood studies." - Professor Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne Global Childhoods draws on the authors’ interdisciplinary backgrounds and original research in the fields of embodiment, theorisations of childhood, children's policy, child placement and adoption, and family formation. The book critically demonstrates how following from the modern construction of childhood which emerged unevenly from the late eighteenth century, the twentieth century saw the emergence of the conception of the normative global child, a figure finally enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book offers a wide-ranging critical analysis of approaches to children and childhood across the social sciences. Through stimulating case studies which include the experiences of child soldiers, orphans, forced child migrants, and children and biomedicine, Cregan and Cuthbert critically test the notion of the ‘global child’ against the lived experiences of children around the globe. Kate Cregan and Denise Cuthbert draw on and contributes to debates on children and the idea of the child in a wide range of disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, children's studies, cultural studies, history, psychology, law and development studies. In its historical coverage of the rise of the concepts of the child and the global child, its critical engagement with the theorisation of childhood, and its detailed case studies, the book is essential reading for the study of children and childhood.

Author : Paul Buddee
Publisher : Perth, W.A. : St. Gerge Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate of the Artful Dodger written by Paul Buddee and published by Perth, W.A. : St. Gerge Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of child transportation and settlement in young colonial Aystralia and New Zealand.

Author : Joshua Gooch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000727491
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickensian Affects written by Joshua Gooch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life’s precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens’s novels, Gooch explores how they represent and shape emotions to create rhythms specific to their historical moment. To unearth Dickensian affects, Gooch examines how some of Dickens’s novels yoke elements in their difference to signal different kinds and ways of feeling, what he terms affective form. This patterning of elements links a text’s ways of feeling to its conjuncture and locates lines of flight that allow its representations of emotion to become something else. The violence of Oliver Twist links its satire of the New Poor Law to the post-abolition period of apprenticeship in the West Indies. The pervasive anxiety of The Old Curiosity Shop links Nell’s journey to arguments economic inequality focused on questions of inheritance and land reform. The surprise of David Copperfield binds its interests in questions of character and trust to Britain’s professional world and credit markets. And the suspense of Great Expectations gestures toward a sense of shame and demand for new models of masculine character also seen in the Volunteer rifle militias. Dickensian Affects argues that for Dickens, questions of feeling reveal the precarity of feeling itself. For Dickens, to feel is to know the possibility of feeling otherwise.

Author : Mary Williams
Publisher : London : F. Griffiths
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dickens Concordance written by Mary Williams and published by London : F. Griffiths. This book was released on 1907 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rhona Whiteford
Publisher : Folens Limited
ISBN 13 : 1843036738
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History 4 written by Rhona Whiteford and published by Folens Limited. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782491251819
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress. In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988.