عنوان

Charles Dickens /

(Number (ISBN

0670030775

(Number (ISBN

9780670030774

Number

b782070

Title Proper

Charles Dickens /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jane Smiley.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Viking,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 212 pages ;

Dimensions

20 cm.

Series Title

Penguin lives series

Text of Note

"A Lipper/Viking book."

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212).

Text of Note

With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great expectations and A Christmas carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic-and lionized. As she makes clear, Dickens not only led the action-packed life of a prolific writer, editor, and family man but, balancing the artistic and the commercial in his work, he also consciously sustained his status as one of the first modern "celebrities." Charles Dickens offers brilliant interpretations of almost all the major works, an exploration of his narrative techniques and his innovative voice and themes, and a reflection on how his richly varied lower-class cameos sprang from an experience and passion more personal than his public knew. Jane Smiley touches, too, on controversial details that include Dickens's obsession with money and squabbles with publishers, his unhappy marriage, and the rumors of an affair. Here is a fresh look at the dazzling personality of a verbal magician and the fascinating times behind the classics we read in school and continue to enjoy today.

Title

Charles Dickens.

Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.

Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.

Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.

Dickens, Charles.

Novelists, English-- 19th century, Biography.

Romanciers anglais-- 19e siècle, Biographies.

Novelists, English.

Number

Number

Edition

Edition

Class number

Book number

Smiley, Jane.

Date of Transaction

20201206204122.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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