Download or read book Readings on Charles Dickens written by Clarice Swisher and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a series of articles examining the life and works of the English author Charles Dickens, discussing the themes and characters in his many novels, including "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol."
Download or read book Charles Dickens Books written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Christmas Books written by Charles Dickens and published by New York : Harper & brothers, [18--?]. This book was released on 1877 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens Complete Works written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens Condensed and adapted by John A Jennings written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and Charles Dickens written by Gary L. Colledge and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.
Download or read book Poems of Charles Dickens A Classic Collection Book written by Debbie Brewer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English literary genius, famous for his many classic novels such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and many more. Less well known, but equally highly regarded, are his notable poems, which mark him as a talented and respected poet. This collection of Charles Dickens poems include: The Hymn Of The Wiltshire Laborers, George Edmunds' Song, The Song Of The Wreck, Little Nell's Funeral, A Fine Old English Gentleman, Gabriel's Grub Song, Squire Norton's Song, The Ivy Green, A Child's Hymn, Lucy's Song, The Quack Doctor's Proclamation, Subjects For Painters, The British Lion, A Word In Season, Romance, and many more
Download or read book The Best of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 4025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of Dickens' greatest works includes: The Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist A Christmas Carol David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.
Download or read book Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No library's complete without the classics! This new edition collects the greatest works of Charles Dickens, one of the most popular novelists of all time. Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we've read his renowned works of social commentary and vivid storytelling. And though these novels were written more than one hundred years ago, no home library today would be complete without them. This Canterbury Classics edition of Charles Dickens collects some of his most famous and beloved works--The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--into a single volume. For those who've never read Dickens, it's the perfect opportunity to experience his unique and compelling writing. And for those who are already Dickens devotees, an introduction by a renowned scholar will provide additional context and food for thought.
Download or read book Readings from the Works of Charles Dickens and from Irish and American Authors written by John Andrew Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Dorrit written by Charles Dickens and published by Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1868 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As for many of Dickens' novels, highlighting social injustices is at the heart of Little Dorrit. His father was imprisoned for debt, and Dickens' shines a spotlight on the fate of many who are unable to repay a debt when the ability to seek work is denied. Amy Dorrit is the youngest daughter of a man imprisoned for debt and is working as a seamstress for Mrs Clennam when Arthur Clennam crosses her path. Will the sweet natured Amy win Arthur's heart? And will they ever escape the shadow of debtors' prison?
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.
Download or read book Readings by Mr Charles Dickens from the Works of His Father written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charles Dickens Collection written by Charles Dickens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the three best Charles Dickens novels: A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves written by Malcolm Andrews and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'. 'I shall tear myself to pieces', he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions.
