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Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant de Christopher Hibbert

Charles Dickens: The Making of a Literary Giant

Autor Christopher Hibbert John Sutherland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2009

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230614260
ISBN-10: 0230614264
Pagini: 321
Ilustrații: 16 pp. b&w photos plus additional illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction,  and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

Cuprins

Author's Note
The Better World 1812-1822
Warren's Blacking 1823-1824
Wellington House Academy 1824-1827
Messrs Ellis& Blackmore 1827-1827
Miss Maria Beadnell 1828-1833
The Chronicle Reporter 1833-1835
Miss Catherine Hogarth 1835-1836
The Inimitable Boz 1836-1837
Miss Mary Hogarth 1837
The Novelist Triumphant 1837-1839
Mrs Charles Dickens 1839-1845
Epilogue: 'You don't object to an aged parent, I hope?'
References and Notes
Sources
Index

Recenzii

Praise for Christopher Hibbert:
 
'Hibbert is a remarkably prolific popular historian, who can take on almost anything, from Dickens to General Wolfe, from Agincourt to Garibaldi'
- The Observer
 
'[Hibbert] is a superbly skillful historical writer'
- The Spectator

Notă biografică

CHRISTPOHER HIBBERT was born in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oxford, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many highly acclaimed books, including Disraeli, Edward VII, George VI, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici; The English: A Social History; and Cavaliers and Roundheads.

Caracteristici


Christopher Hibbert is a prolific writer with an impeccable reputation. Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire has said: 'Christopher Hibbert is one of the great British historians of our era. His elegant and lyrical writing has inspired a generation of authors to imitate him. Yet, he remains unsurpassed' and Publishers Weekly: 'Hibbert is both eclectic and prolific, and his energies are hardly flagging'We will add an introduction by a big name like David Gate, Radhika Jones, Peter Ackroyd or Clive James
Hibbert has been reviewed widely, from The New York Review of Books to The Wall Street Journal to The Guardian
Christopher Hibbert has a solid fan base of history and biography buffs who will want the entire series and will ensure these books have a long backlist life