Charles Dickens The Story Of His Life

Author : Claire Tomalin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141036931
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Claire Tomalin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of the nineteenth-century literary master from the challenges he faced as the imprisoned son of a profligate father, his rise to one of England's foremost novelists, and the personal demons that challenged his relationships.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439142580
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Our Lord written by Charles Dickens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's other Christmas classic, with a new introduction by Dickens's great-great-grandson, Gerald Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord during the years 1846-1849, just about the time he was completing David Copperfield. In this charming, simple retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, adapted from the Gospel of St. Luke, Dickens hoped to teach his young children about religion and faith. Since he wrote it exclusively for his children, Dickens refused to allow publication. For eighty-five years the manuscript was guarded as a precious family secret, and it was handed down from one relative to the next. When Dickens died in 1870, it was left to his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth. From there it fell to Dickens's son, Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, with the admonition that it should not be published while any child of Dickens lived. Just before the 1933 holidays, Sir Henry, then the only living child of Dickens, died, leaving his father's manuscript to his wife and children. He also bequeathed to them the right to make the decision to publish The Life of Our Lord. By majority vote, Sir Henry's widow and children decided to publish the book in London. In 1934, Simon & Schuster published the first American edition, which became one of the year's biggest bestsellers.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by John Camden Hotten and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062954962
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Charles Dickens written by A.N. Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, A. N. Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : J.C. Hotten
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens, the Story of His Life written by John Camden Hotten and published by London : J.C. Hotten. This book was released on 1870 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547395744
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337527921
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by John Camden Hotten and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Thomas Taverner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375602839
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens: The Story of His Life written by Henry Thomas Taverner and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425508081
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens. the Story of His Life. by the Author of the 'Life of Thackeray'. written by John Camden Hotten and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: