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Charles Dickens : [a life defined by writing] /
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public act...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Early years : from Portsmouth to Chatham, 1812-1822
- 2. Early years : London, 1822-1827
- 3. "The Copperfield days", 1828-1835
- 4. Break-through year, 1836
- 5. Editing Bentley's Magazine, 1836-1837
- 6. Periodicals into novels, 1837-1839
- 7. The Master Humphrey experiment, 1840-1841
- 8. America brought to book, 1842
- 9. "The turning-point of his career" : England, Italy, England, 1842-1845
- 10. An interlude : "daily nooses" and the noose itself, 1846
- 11. Dombey and other dealings, 1846-1848
- 12. From Dombey to Copperfield, 1848-1849
- 13. Interweaving and conducting : writing David Copperfield and beginning Household words, 1849-1850
- 14. The year of the guild, 1850-1851
- 15. Writing Bleak house, 1852-1853
- 16. Writing "For these times", 1853-1854
- 17. Writing Little Dorrit-among other things, 1855-1857
- 18. Drama and denouement : performing The Frozen deep and finishing Little Dorrit, 1857
- 19. Writing off a marriage, 1857-1858
- 20. Stories into scripts : the public readings, 1858
- 21. Serials, series and stories : writing for All the year round, 1859-1861
- 22. Christmas numbers, public readings, and "uncommericial" travels, 1861-1863
- 23. Back to the "big brushes" : writing Our mutual friend, 1864-1865
- 24. Last Christmas numbers, 1865-1867
- 25. Writing, and reading, for America, 1867-1868
- 26. Disappearances and deaths, 1868-1870
- 27. Charles Dicken's explanations.