Download or read book Walking Charles Dickens Kent written by Andy Bull and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare on Film Television and Radio written by Luke McKernan and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything about the how as well as the why of studying audiovisual Shakespeare is provided here, from silent cinema to the multiplex, and from cat's whiskers to Youtube.
Download or read book Secret Richmond Upon Thames written by Andy Bull and published by Secret. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Richmond upon Thames explores the lesser-known history of the South West London borough of Richmond upon Thames through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
Download or read book What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew written by Daniel Pool and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally Ho!” at a fox hunt, or how one landed in “debtor’s prison,” this book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the “plums” in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life—both “upstairs” and “downstairs. An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from “ague” to “wainscoting,” the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.
Download or read book Dickens London written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nightwalking written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a fascinating literary exploration of the writers who traverse the city at night and the people they meet.
Download or read book My Lifetime written by John Hollingshead and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dickens reader written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pilgrim Pathways 1 2 Day Walks on Britain s Ancient Sacred Ways written by Andy Bull and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full colour, larger format Inspirational guide describing 20 pilgrimages in England, Scotland and Wales that are achievable over one or two days. There are many ancient pilgrim paths in Britain, some long-forgotten and we offer routes inspired by the very best of them, distilled into short walks so you can be a weekend pilgrim. Practical information accessed via dedicated webpages linked with a code in the book - step-by-step route instructions, public transport information, places to eat and places to stay, gpx file for use on smartphone based mapping and GPS units.
Download or read book In Kent with Charles Dickens written by Thomas Frost and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. Canterbury pilgrims, mediaeval and modern--Inn dinners in Kent and in Dorsetshire--A Boughton Boniface on agricultural depression--The story of the Bossenden Wood tragedy, as related by an eye-witness--View from Boughton Hill--Bossenden Wood. About an hour after noon we reached the village of Boughton, where the servant of Chaucer's rich canon--the alchemist who could have paved with gold "all the road to Canterbury town " -- overtook the pilgrims bound to the shrine of Thomas Becket. We, too, had our faces Canterbury-ward, and a remark upon the association of the locality with the pilgrimage described by the mediaeval poet with so much quaintness and humour led to many comparisons and contrasts, more or less felicitous, as we strolled through the village, looking for what might seem to be the most eligible hostelry. Having made our selection, we sat down in the sanded parlour, which the curate said reminded him by its furniture and decorations of The Leather Bottle at Cobham, and awaited the serving of dinner with appetites sharpened by our long walk and the pure air. There are certain features of the public rooms of village inns in the south of England which are common to most of them; the same hard chairs, the same stuffed birds in the same square cases, the same varnished engravings in the same black frames, may be found in a very large proportion of the guest parlours of hostelries of this class. In how many, as I asked the curate, should we not find that old print of "The Stopper stopped," representing a rustic going through the woods, on the eve of a fox-hunt, to close the apertures by which Reynard might run to earth, and finding himself, to his dismay, confronted with the Evil One? Our hostess was not long in...
Download or read book Walk with Me Charles Dickens written by John Costella and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens spent most of his adult life in London whilst residing in locations which extended to every boundary of the Metropolis. Like Dickens, the author is passionate about London and in doing so has explored architectural and historical links together with sights and scenes, which the accomplished Victorian writer would have encountered in his quest to record the social depravation of London. With these thoughts in mind this book endeavors to track the many walks Dickens would have made, using an 1863 street map, in his quest to capture a library of characters for his literary works. In each of the ten walks the author has envisaged Dickens being an imaginary walking companion and hypothesized his comments regarding change. How would he react to a changing society which has evolved over the past 150 years and what opinions and arguments would this great Victorian novelist have when comparing his own creative era with that of the 21st century? To highlight certain places of interest on each walk, the author has included his own pen and ink illustrated sketches to provide a topographical and artistic account of each district in a manner that he feels Dickens would have approved of.
Download or read book On the Marshes written by Carol Donaldson and published by Little Toller Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donaldson explores the conflicts between marsh-dwellers and corporate Britain, between private ownership and conservation.
Download or read book Night Walks written by Charles Dickens and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a remedy to sleeplessness, Charles Dickens used to take to wandering the streets of London at night for long stretches of time. On those walks, he gained a great deal of experience of and sympathy for homeless people and what it was like to share their world, noting down his observations in the series of essays and accounts contained within this volume. The essays include: “Night walks” (1860), “Gone Astray” (1853), “Chatham Dockyard” (1863), “A Small Star In The East” (1868), “On an Amateur Beat” (1869), “Betting-shops” (1852), and “Trading in Death” (1852). These incredible essays offer a unique glimpse into London's underbelly during the mid-nineteenth century, painting a vivid picture of the lives and travails of London's neglected underclass. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic famous for having created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters. His works became unprecedentedly popular during his life, and today he is commonly regarded as the greatest Victorian-era novelist. Although perhaps better known for such works as “Oliver Twist” and “A Christmas Carol”, Dickens first gained success with the 1836 serial publication of “The Pickwick Papers”, which turned him almost overnight into an international literary celebrity thanks to his humour, satire, and astute observations concerning society and character. Read & Co. Books is publishing this fantastic collection of essays complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
Download or read book Sunday Under Three Heads written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instrumental in calling forth occasional demonstrations of those extreme opinions on the subject, which are very generally received with derision, if not with contempt.
Download or read book Walking Literary London written by Stephen Browning and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meant for travelers and general readers, this book belongs to adventurers of all sorts, whether on the road or in their minds." - Library Journal London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey Chaucer, P.L. Travers, Samuel Pepys, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Una Marson, Joe Orton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Phillis Wheatley, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Potter and Samuel Selvon to name just a very few. The text takes the reader on a series of walks, each of which is original and unique, the result of twenty years’ exploration of this wonderful city by the author. Detailed maps have been specially commissioned. The text is accompanied by over 80 original photographs taken by the author. In these pages you will find the details of hundreds of writers and their works; wherever you walk in the great city of London – even if solely in imagination from an armchair - the experience is going to be extraordinary.
Download or read book The Uncommercial Traveller Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens, published in 1860to1861. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers' School London in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer. The persona sits well with a writer who liked to travel, not only as a tourist, but also to research and report what he found visiting Europe, America and giving book readings throughout Britain. He did not seem content to rest late in his career when he had attained wealth and comfort and continued travelling locally, walking the streets of London in the mould of the flâneur, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets'. He often suffered from insomnia and his night-time wanderings gave him an insight into some of the hidden aspects of Victorian London, details of which he also incorporated into his novels.
Download or read book Great Ideas V Night Walks written by Charles Dickens and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
