Charles Dickens
by Slater, Michael
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0300112076
- ISBN 13
- 9780300112078
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Yale University Press, 2009 8vo (24 cm), XVIII, 696 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. From publisher's blurb: 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 activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens’ career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them. Slater’s account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens’ boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny. Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.
Synopsis
"First published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004"--T.p verso. Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005459
- Title
- Charles Dickens
- Author
- Slater, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300112076
- ISBN 13
- 9780300112078
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2009
- LCCN
- 2009026834
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Biography;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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