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A Dickens companion / Norman Page.
LIBRA - Special PR4588 .P33 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Norman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 369 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Schocken paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, 1987.
- Summary:
- This concise, comprehensive and up-to-date reference to the works of Charles Dickens will fascinate not only Dickens enthusiasts, but also those new admirers of Dickens who want to learn more about the man and his writings. The book begins by providing a wealth of information relating to the background of Dickens' remarkable career, with a chronology of his life and writings and a "who's who" of the Dickens circle. These are followed by individual sections on each of Dickens' writings: not only the major novels, but also his stories, journalism, readings, speeches, letters and minor writings. Also included are an annotated list of characters, the topography of Dickens' fiction, illustrators of his work, a filmography, a bibliography, and and appendix, which reprints documents of particular biographical interest. - Back cover.
- Contents:
- A Dickens chronology
- The Dickens circle
- Dickens' writings. Sketches by Boz
- The Pickwick Papers
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Master Humphrey's Clock
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Barnaby Rudge
- American Notes
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Pictures from Italy
- Dombey and Son
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- Hard Times
- Little Dorrit
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
- Our Mutual Friend
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Christmas Books
- Christmas Stories
- Readings and speeches
- Letters
- Plays and poems
- Other minor writings
- Translations
- Dickens' illustrators
- Topography
- Select bibliography
- Filmography
- Early dramatizations
- Appendixes. The autobiographical fragment
- Dickens' separation from his wife
- Dickens' will
- The Berg notebook
- The number-plans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318).
- Filmography: pages 319-323.
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0805208461
- 9780805208467
- OCLC:
- 18567688
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