Results for: books tagged ‘Charles Dickens’
The Violent Effigy: John Carey
An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens’s imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens’s work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, ... More
Little Nell: Simon Gray
It wasn't just concealment. She lied outright. She said that Charles Dickens died when she was a child.Forty-five years old and married, Charles Dickens falls passionately in love with Nelly ... More
Dickens the Novelist: F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis
In seven typically robust and uncompromising chapters, the Leavises grapple with the evaluation of a writer who was then still open to dismissal as a mere entertainer, a caricaturist ... More
Words & Pictures: Jenny Uglow
Following the success of Jenny Uglow’s Hogarth and Nature's Engraver, her life of Thomas Bewick, this beautifully illustrated little book uncovers some intriguing connections between British writers and artists.As children, ... More
The Violent Effigy: John Carey
An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens’s imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens’s work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, ... More
A Sultry Month: Alethea Hayter
June 1846 was a month of fierce heat and political crisis in London. This sultry month was also a time of personal crisis for Carlyle and his wife, for Browning ... More
Andersen's English: Sebastian Barry
Celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad’s Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family. To ... More