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Charles Dickens /
Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and the social contr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Writers' lives (Continuum (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and References; Introduction; 1. Why We Read Dickens; 2. Life of Dickens; 3. Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist; 4. Dickens s London; 5. Social Class in Victorian England; 6. Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge; 7. Prison and Crime; 8. Dickens and Education; 9. Medicine, Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals; 10. Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son; 11. Women and Children; 12. Dickens and Animals; 13. David Copperfield, Bleak House; 14. Dickens's Comic Characters and Villains.
- 15. Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities16. Theatre and Entertainment; 17. Dickens and Christmas; 18. Dickens's Public Readings; 19. Dickens's Friends and Contemporaries; 20. Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; 21. Adaptations and Versions of Dickens's Writings; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.