Charles Dickens /

This clear-sighted biography and literary study examines Dickens the novelist in all his glory. It begins with the life: its often tragic as well as comic dimensions. Brian Murray analyzes the important influence of Dickens's early professional experiences as a journalist. (It was as a reporter...

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Main Author: Murray, Brian (Professor of writing)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum, 1994.
Series:Literature and life. British writers
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Table of Contents:
  • Performance artist
  • Good and evil : The Pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The old curiosity shop, Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Facts of life : Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak house, Hard times
  • Money and mystery : Little Dorrit, Great expectations, Our mutual friend, The mystery of Edwin Drood.