The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist
by Sutherland, Jon
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For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic.Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being? For the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens' work, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few - John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to the great man's work. Excerpt: HANDS; Every Dickens novel has a master image. In Our Mutual Friend it is the river. In Bleak House it is the fog. In Little Dorrit, it is the prison. In Great Expectations it is the hand. We often know much more about the principals' hands in that novel than their faces. Who, when the name Magwitch is mentioned, does not think of those murderous 'large brown veinous hands'? Jaggers? One's nose twitches - scented soap (the lawyer, like Pontius Pilate, is forever washing his hands). Miss Havisham? Withered claws. So it goes on...
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- Title
- The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist
- Author
- Sutherland, Jon
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
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- 1
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- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1848313918
- ISBN 13
- 9781848313910
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- Icon Books
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- This edition first published
- 2012-05-01
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