Book
Charles Dickens
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670030774 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0670030775 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0670030775
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Physical Description:
viii, 212 pages ; 20 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2002.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Lipper/Viking book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212). |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 10.4 12.0 75909. |
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| Subject: | Novelists, English 19th century Biography Dickens, Charles Biography Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 19 of 19 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Ridgefield Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ridgefield Library | LIT 823 SMI (Text) | 34010093954187 | Adult Literature | Available | - |
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