Download or read book Dickens The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Young Gentlemen written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sketches of Young Gentlemen" by Charles Dickens. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Young Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Young Men written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of Young Gentlemen is a collection of texts that was first published anonymously by the renowned Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. It came at a time when Dickens was only an enthusiastic young writer right after the phenomenal success of The Pickwick Papers and Sketches by Boz. Dedicated to "The Young Ladies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain" as well as to other young ladies, Sketches of Young Gentlemen scrutinizes in a very witty and humorous fashion certain familiar characteristics of Victorian men and women. Indeed, the sketches center around certain social stereotypes developed by the author. They are given titles like "The Bashful Young Gentleman, " "The Out-and-Out Young Gentleman, " "The Literary Young Lady, " etc. Generally, the sketches examine the behavior of such characters and study the Victorian manners and conventions related to gender roles and to love relations through combining satire with comic effects. One can still enjoy the dexterous painting of such stereotypes though they belong to a different age. The narratorial style is rather experimental and shows a young writer striving to refine his skills. To modern readers, these sketches reveal a hidden facet of the great Victorian novelist as they give a glimpse of his little-known beginnings.
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.
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens s works Charles Dickens ed 18 vols of a 21 vol set Wanting A child s history of England Christmas stories The mystery of Edwin Drood written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dickens and the Grown Up Child written by M. Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child who stops growing, infantile senility, the 'old-fashioned' child, child-wives and child-mothers, the rejuvenated adult - Dickens's writings parade before us a gallery of bizarre hybrids. Dickens and the Grown-up Child focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. In challenging the familiar view that the source of such anomalies lies in Dickens's own childhood experiences, Malcolm Andrews explores the extent to which Dickens was heir to an older cultural debate about primitivism and progressivism, a debate which Dickens adapted to his own preoccupations with the tensions between childhood and maturity. In examining these issues, Malcolm Andrews concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly David Copperfield, and on some of the journalistic essays.
Download or read book Charles Dickens the Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices written by Charles Dickens and published by Word to the Wise. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together." "In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer." Thus starts The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857) written in collaboration between the two renowned Victorian novelists Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Before the book took the form of a novella, it was serialized in Dickens's periodical Household Words. It tells the story of two idle young men who are actually nothing but caricatures of the two authors themselves. They both go on a trip to Cumberland in North West England and start speaking about their adventures there. While the fictional Thomas Idle stands for Collins, Francis Goodchild stands for Dickens. For Francis, idleness is to spend one's time without doing anything of significant importance while Thomas decides, after a number of misadventures, that activity is the root of all evil and that the only way to remain safe is to do absolutely nothing. Generally, the book is the authors' very enjoyable satire of themselves and of each other although it also includes some reflections on social issues such as poverty and class differences.
Download or read book The Radical written by Sidney H. Morse and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Expectations is written by English author Charles Dickens. The book was published serially in the journal All the Year Round in 186061 and issued in book form in 1861. The novel traces the prospects of a poor young man Pip who is educated as a gentleman of great expectations. Written in the first-person narrative, the story tells the saga of Pip (Philip Pirrip) who is looked after by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. One day, the young Pip helps an escaped convict. Later on, Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. It was Joe who rescued Pip from despair and nursed him back to health. Like David Copperfield, the novel draws on parts of Dickenss own personality and experience. Many consider Great Expectations as the most finely achieved novel by Dickens. Pip, the main protagonist, is explored with great subtlety, and his development through a childhood and youth is traced sympathetically.
Download or read book Becoming Dickens written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.
Download or read book Dickens s Young Men written by P.D. Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dickens's lifetime, and for a generation or so after, Edmund Hodgson Yates and George Augustus Sala were the best known and most successful of his "young men" - the budding writers who acknowledged him as their guide and mentor and whose literary careers the publicity and privately fostered. The book considers their personal and literary relationships with Dickens, with each other, and with other writers of the period, Bohemian and "respectable", including Yates's arch-enemy, his post-office colleague Anthony Trollope. But it also demonstrates that their life and writings - their fiction, private letters and occasional essays in verse and drama, as well as their already recognised contributions to the development of the "new journalism" - are interesting and historically illuminating in their own right, not merely pale reflections of the glory of greater writers. Extensive use is made of previously unpublished material.
Download or read book The Charles Dickens Collection Volume Two written by Charles Dickens and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 3085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic novels of wealth, poverty, murder, and ambition from the greatest storyteller of the Victorian era. Filled with drama, emotion, and suspense, these three novels have compelled and delighted readers for well over a century. Martin Chuzzlewit: After losing his inheritance, a young man strives to make his own fortune, in this witty, wide-ranging saga. Nicholas Nickleby: A young man fights to save his mother, his sister, and a group of abused schoolboys in this novel of hardship and heroism. Our Mutual Friend: When a corpse is found in the River Thames, it will alter the course of several lives. “In addition to its realistic police procedures and incisive criminal psychology, Our Mutual Friend is steeped in the gloomy atmosphere and foreboding imagery that one associates with the modern suspense thriller.” —The New York Times
Download or read book The Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dickens and the Twentieth Century RLE Dickens written by John Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which have been neglected in recent years, such as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.
Download or read book The Old Curiosity Shop written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOPThe Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous girl of "not quite fourteen". Orphaned, she lives with her maternal grandfather, who remains nameless, in the middle of the junk shop of her antique shop. His existence is solitary, almost exclusively devoted to the love of the old man and to the care that he lavishes on him; without a real companion or companion of her age, her only friend is Kit, the young employee of the shop to whom she tries to teach writing.Secretly obsessed by the fear that his granddaughter will die in poverty like his parents, the old man leads a secret life and is absent every night. It is only after fifty pages that the mystery of his absences is revealed: he plays large sums of money cards and, to guarantee his stakes, regularly borrows from a usurer, the dwarf Daniel Quilp who, deformed and sadistic, terrorizes his entourage, including his young wife, and practices sarcasm and irony with virtuosity. Soon, all the goods of the old man are pledged and Quilp takes possession of the place.The ruined old antiquarian sinks into a deep melancholy and his life remains in abeyance for long months, while Quilp and his henchman Sampson Brass, a man of recognized but servile law, camp on the spot. Nell watches his grandfather day and night and, as soon as he regains some strength, is secretly decided between the two lonely to escape on the roads and live under the stars begging. Their steps, guided at first by chance alone, lead them gradually into the Midlands, following a road strewn with pitfalls and terrors, which was more or less identified.Meanwhile, convinced that the old man had amassed a fortune for his granddaughter, Nell's prodigal brother, Frederick, persuaded the na�ve Dick Swiveller to look for them so that Nell could marry him and grandfather's legacy falls into their hands. To this end, they are allied with Quilp, well aware that he has nothing to gain but that his sadism encourages us to encourage their hopes to better enjoy the distress of all.The dwarf therefore goes hunting; tracking is difficult because the fugitives leave few traces. Dick Swiveller is placed as a clerk in the Sampson Brass study, so as to keep an eye on him. There, he becomes friends with a badly-treated good-to-do, whom he nicknamed "the Marquise (the Marchioness)". For her part, the young Nell, after meeting characters, some of whom are kind and others obnoxious, manages to lead her grandfather to a peaceful and safe retreat, perhaps Tong, in Shropshire County. West Midlands. The trip, the bad weather, the privations, however, were right of her health, and the girl soon became ill.Kit, meanwhile, left without work, found a job at the excellent Mr and Mrs Garland he met randomly from the streets. He is visited by a mysterious gentleman, apparently single (a single gentleman), who wants to know what happened to Nell and the old man. The gentleman in question and Kit's mother then go looking for them. Along the way, they meet Quilp who takes Kit in awe and arranges to have him accused of theft and sentenced to deportation. Dick Swiveller, however, helped by his friend the Marquise, proves the innocence of the young man, and it is Quilp who, from now on, is chased, until, victim of an accident, he s' bogged down the Thames trying to escape his pursuers.The denouement approaches: a happy coincidence allows Mr Garland to learn where Nell and his grandfather are hiding; he goes off to find them in the company of Kit and the unmarried gentleman, the younger brother of the old man, we learn, therefore, the heroine's great-uncle. Alas, the girl has already succumbed, which denies the grandfather who, having lost his reason, spends his time sitting on the grave to moan and wait for her to come back. A few months later, he dies in turn. So ends the story of Nell Trent's antique store.
