Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
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ISBN-10 : 019178320X
ISBN-13 : 9780191783203
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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Jenny Hartley and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction explores the key themes running through his corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of 19th-century society and its institutions. It considers Dickens's multiple lives and careers: as magazine editor for much of his working life, as travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social causes. Finally, it discusses what is meant by the use of the term 'Dickensian' today, and the enduring impact of his work.


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