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Dickens of London
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 72.91 $A critical biography of the great novelist details his private life and the circumstances and relationships surrounding each of his works, from the Sketches to Edwin Drood, and is illustrated throughout
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Parrot Uncle Dicken 52 in. Modern Indoor 5-Blade Downrod Mount Black Crystal Ceiling Fan with Light Kit and Remote Control
Vendor: Homedepot.com Price: 169.72 $A stylish and cost-efficient option for keeping it cool, this Parrot Uncle Dicken 52 in. modern chandelier ceiling fan is the perfect solution for your cooling and lighting needs. A full crystal shade provides your home with a grandeur rarely found in such a functional package. Matching black tone-stained wooden blades move an impressive amount of air, and the manual reverse allows the crystal ceiling fan to not only cool during the summer but helps keep your rooms warm during the winter.
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Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (Cliffs Notes)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 47.58 $Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (Cliffs Notes)
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Dickens Ghost Stories (classic Books On Cd Collection) [unabridged]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 75.14 $A macabre collection including: "The Lawyer and the Ghost," "The Queer Chair," "The Ghosts of the Mail," "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain," "Christmas Ghosts," "The Ghost Chamber," and "Four Ghost Stories."
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Dickens and the Trials of Imagination
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 97.85 $Examines the thematic preoccupations, wit, diction, syntax, and metaphor of Dickens's major stylistic modes, particularly in terms of his characters' fanciful impulses and escapist of retaliatory uses of the imagination
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Dickens's England: Life In Victorian Times
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 27.56 $A book for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the world of Oliver Twist and 'Great Expectations'. R.E. Pritchard guides the reader through a journey of the different classes, rich and poor, men and women, faith and doubt, education and entertainment, and town and country life.
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Dickens and the Business of Death
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 96.09 $Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.
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Dickens
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Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens (The Nineteenth Century Series)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 76.09 $Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material, it offers a radical reassessment of the writer's stance on racial matters. In the past Dickens has been dismissed as a dogged and sustained racist from the 1850s until the end of his life; but here author Grace Moore reappraises The Noble Savage, previously regarded as a racist tract. Examining it side by side with a series of articles by Lord Denman in The Chronicle, which condemned the staunch abolitionist Dickens as a supporter of slavery, Moore reveals that the tract is actually an ironical riposte. This finding facilitates a review and reassessment of Dickens's controversial outbursts during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, and demonstrates that his views on racial matters were a good deal more complex than previous critics have suggested. Moore's analysis of a number of pre- and post-Mutiny articles calling for reform in India shows that Dickens, as their publisher, would at least have been aware of the grievances of the Indian people, and his journal's sympathy toward them is at odds with his vitriolic responses to the insurrection. This first sustained analysis of Dickens and his often problematic relationship to the British Empire provides fresh readings of a number of Dickens texts, in particular A Tale of Two Cities. The work also presents a more complicated but balanced view of one of the most famous figures in Victorian literature.
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Dickens (Paperback)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 25.67 $Charles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by guilt and secrecy - rather like the plot of one of his novels. Indeed, Dickens drew strongly on his own experiences as the source for much of his fiction. Here the author offers a fresh view of Dickens's remarkable life story. Dickens's novels brim with references: they are located in the places he lived in and visited, peopled with characters he knew, and inspired by the preoccupations that haunted his mind. Ackroyd highlights the reality of Victorian life, warts and all, and the issues that sparked Dickens's fervent calls for social reform; and he also charts the influential landmarks of that era, such as the coming of the railways, the effects upon society of the industrial revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. Dickens was a complex personality. He apparently had everything - fame, success, wealth - but he died harbouring the great sadness he had carried with him all his life, and he was humble enough to forbid a grand funeral. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life. Although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should offend his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow-author Wilkie Collins and, for the final 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress, Ellen Ternan.
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Dickens, Death, and Christmas
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Dickens's Villains : Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 72.41 $This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the "deviant" and "theatrical" aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book sets up a dialogue between these two main strands and suggests a new way understanding the cultural and political implications of his melodramatic aesthetics.
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The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.59 $Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Dickens Glossary for American Readers
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 68.02 $Containing over 2,800 entries, this is a compendium of lesser-known and nearly obsolete words in 15 of Dickens's novels. Fred Levit provides definitions of words and quotations - some lost through the passage of time, others still used in Britain but not in the United States - all the while preserving the flavor of Dickens's writing.
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Dickens and Dickensiana: A catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection in the Yale University Library [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 39.95 $Dickens and Dickensiana: A Catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection in the Yale University Library, John B. Podeschi, 1980. 570 numbered pages. Description: Book; green boards with title in classic style paper, front and back boards have a simple blind embossed border, brown endpapers. No dust jacket. Condition: Near fine. Bright and clean boards and pages, no markings. Top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed.
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Dickens' Christmas Books (Illustrated)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 36.46 $Book is in NEW condition. 1.47
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Dickens: A Biography (John Curtis Book)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 36.91 $Named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and one of best biographies of 1988 by Publishers WeeklyFrom a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England. And no one has captured the rich texture of this life as colorfully and persuasively as Fred Kaplan in this acclaimed biography. Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources, Kaplan presents a full-scale portrait of Dickens and his world. From the autobiographical basis of his novels and his extraordinary circle of friends to the course of his unhappy marriage and complicated family relations, Kaplan reveals the restless compulsions, private passions, and professional concerns that drove Dickens to unprecedented literary success. Kaplan details Dickens's often stormy dealings with his publishers and his carefully cultivated relationship with readers, heightened through amateur theatricals and numerous public readings in Britain and North America. Brilliantly written and thoroughly researched, Dickens provides an absorbing and perceptive account of its subject as a singularly complex man and a consummate artist, offering readers new insights into Dickens's―and literature's―greatest works, works such as Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist.
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Dickens and Crime
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.95 $'One of the best social commentators on Dickens...models of historical scholarship.'- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York. This classic of Dickens criticism, now in its third edition, provides a fascinating insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime. Extraordinary in character, as well as literary skill, he displayed a shrewd insight into the criminal character, whilst demanding tough penalties for those who broke the law. At one stage attracted to a career as a metropolitan magistrate, Dickens turned instead to fiction and discovered there an outlet for his enduring fascination with the darker side of human nature. Thieves, cheats and murderers people the pages of his novels, few of which are without some serious crime. But the treatment of crime for Dickens was far more than an authorial device: it was a focal point for his deep concern with social problems and played a vital role in his attempt to understand these ills. Dickens and Crime continues to be one of the most significant and illuminating studies into Dickens's creative imagination, and its reappearance in print will be warmly welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.
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Dickens' Working Notes for His Novels
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 35.21 $Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 5.7
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Dickens's Style
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 28.24 $Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.
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