An assemblage of extracts from the complete works of Charles Dickens, including his speeches. The volume reflects the editor's effort to include every notable/quotable passage or short comment by Dickens on a subject which interested the great author. It contains over 860,000 words, and there are over 50 illustrations. Included are 27 extended extracts, largely from the fictional works, which capture the greatest scenes in the oeuvre, including the trial of Bardell v. Pickwick, Ralph Nickleby's frustration and suicide, Jonas Chuzzlewit's murder of Tigg Montague and its...
An assemblage of extracts from the complete works of Charles Dickens, including his speeches. The volume reflects the editor's effort to include ev...
"A Tale of Two Cities," does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody events in history, the French Revolution. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary will promote interdisciplinary study of the novel and enrich the student's understanding of the French Revolution and the significant issues it raised. Newlin, the author of "Everyone in Dickens" and "Every Thing in Dickens," has assembled a rich variety of materials. These include excerpts from Thomas Carlyle's work, "The French...
"A Tale of Two Cities," does not waste a word in telling a humanly touching, suspenseful tale against the background of one of the most bloody even...
More than one hundred years after being written, "Great Expectations" is still one of the most widely studied works of fiction. This casebook of historical documents, collateral readings and essays brings to life both Dickens' masterpiece and the social issues surrounding his work. The interdisciplinary approach offers students insight into the historically significant issues, such as child welfare, that ignited Dickens' creative and moral sensibilities. Newlin has unearthed significant documentation on the dilemma of Victorian women, supplying original social commentary such as Mary...
More than one hundred years after being written, "Great Expectations" is still one of the most widely studied works of fiction. This casebook of hi...
More than 4,500 characters are analyzed and thousands more minor characters presented in this monumental resource. Volumes I and II cover the novels - Volume III covers the shorter fiction - and nonfiction works are covered in Volume IV, along with a thematic concordance on nearly every aspect of life that Trollope wrote about.
More than 4,500 characters are analyzed and thousands more minor characters presented in this monumental resource. Volumes I and II cover the novels -...
Now for the first time all the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of popularVictorian author George Eliot is chronicled in one definitive reference.This exhaustive resource, by the editor of the award-winning Everyonein Dickens, makes Eliot's complete works accessible to the generalreader as well as the student and scholar. In addition to the seven Eliotnovels, three novellas, and two short stories, all sixty-eight works ofnon-fiction are covered, and all poetry, long and short, is included.Using Eliot's own words, Newlin presents all the characters in thenovels and other fiction, as well as...
Now for the first time all the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of popularVictorian author George Eliot is chronicled in one definitive reference.This ...
