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 The Public Readings written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1975 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of public readings by Charles Dickens. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Download or read book The Readings of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charles Dickens Show written by Raymund Fitzsimons and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 The readings of Charles Dickens as arranged and read by himself With an intr by J Hollingshead written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Readings of Mr Charles Dickens as Condensed by Himself written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Readings of Mr Charles Dickens as Condensed by Himself written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves written by Malcolm Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.
Download or read book Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens s Readings written by Kate Field and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Readings of Mr Charles Dickens as Condensed by Himself written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens as I Knew Him written by George Dolby and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Readings of Mr Charles Dickens as Condensed by Himself written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sikes and Nancy written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 14, 1868 Charles Dickens organized a special reading to a select audience to get their opinion on whether or not Sikes and Nancy, the telling of the horrific murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist, should be added to his repertoire of public readings of his works. William Charles Kent (1823-1902), editor, journalist, and Dickens' friend, was among those chosen to witness this test reading. Here he gives an account of the event. Most in the audience, Kent among them, felt the reading was sensational and should be added. A few worried about possible hysteria in the audience and the reading's effect on Dickens' already frail health. Dickens read the account with such passion that his pulse soared during its performance. Dickens added Sikes and Nancy to his farewell reading tour of Britain.
Download or read book American Notes Unabridged written by Charles Dickens and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sail with the master of storytelling, Charles Dickens, on a voyage unlike any other. Buckle up for "American Notes," a candid and captivating account of his 1842 journey across the young United States. Dickens, renowned for his unflinching social commentary, takes you from bustling cities like New York and Philadelphia to the heartland's untamed frontier. Prepare to be surprised by his observations on everything from booming industry and cultural quirks to the shadow of slavery. Will America live up to its ideals of liberty and progress? Lend your ears to Dickens's witty and insightful narration, and discover the America of the 1840s through the eyes of a literary legend.
