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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, height x width x depth: 198x128x9 mm, weight: 112 g, illustrations
  • Sērija : Beginner's Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2001
  • Izdevniecība: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340789018
  • ISBN-13: 9780340789018
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, height x width x depth: 198x128x9 mm, weight: 112 g, illustrations
  • Sērija : Beginner's Guides
  • Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2001
  • Izdevniecība: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340789018
  • ISBN-13: 9780340789018
Charles Dickens - A Beginner's Guide introduces you to the life and works of Dickens. In exploring four of the most popular novels Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Hard Times and Great Expectations discover the relevance of Dickens today and develop your own responses to the works.

Recenzijas

"A Beginner's Guide series aimed at breaking down the obstacles which so often stand between us and the classics." -- Bognor Regis Observer 20010201

Introduction vi
How to Use This Book vi
Begin reading the author vi
How to approach unfamiliar or difficult texts vi
Vocabulary vii
Summary vii
Why Read Dickens Today?
1(4)
A popular writer
1(1)
Humour
2(1)
Dickens revived
3(1)
Summary
4(1)
Biography
5(7)
Dickens: the man
5(3)
Dickens' nature
8(1)
Cult of personality
8(1)
Ellen Ternan
9(1)
Worsening health
9(1)
Popularity of Dickens
10(1)
Summary
11(1)
The Victorian Scene
12(5)
Dickens as a Victorian novelist
12(1)
Urbanisation and its effects
12(1)
Family
13(1)
Men and women
13(2)
Class structure
15(1)
The transport revolution
15(1)
Dickens and his audience
15(1)
Dickens the social reformer
16(1)
Summary
16(1)
How to Read Dickens
17(3)
Read for pleasure
17(1)
Read beyond reality
17(1)
Read the experts
18(1)
Read the books
18(1)
Summary
19(1)
Some Major Themes
20(9)
The greatest evil
20(2)
Education: fact or fancy
22(2)
The family
24(1)
Lost little boys and other orphans
24(2)
Social class
26(1)
Injustice
27(1)
Summary
28(1)
Major Works I: Four Novels
29(20)
General
29(1)
Oliver Twist
30(5)
David Copperfield
35(4)
Hard Times
39(6)
Great Expectations
45(3)
Summary
48(1)
Major Works II: Bleak House
49(12)
The novel as a whole
49(1)
The opening of Bleak House
49(1)
A complex plot
50(1)
The fabric of reoccurrence
51(3)
Decay and neglect
54(2)
Interconnectedness
56(2)
Two narrators
58(1)
Bleak House as detective fiction
59(1)
Summary
60(1)
Modern Critical Approaches
61(15)
Reappraisal
61(1)
Diversity of approaches
62(2)
The new historicist perspective
64(1)
Happy families
65(1)
Unhappy families
66(1)
The feminist perspective
67(7)
Gaps and fissures
74(1)
Summary
75(1)
Where Next?
76(4)
Read his work
76(1)
Read the experts
76(1)
Read Dickens' contemporaries
77(1)
Join a Dickens society
77(1)
Go and visit
78(1)
Have fun
78(1)
Summary
79(1)
Glossary 80(2)
Chronology of Major Works 82(2)
Recommended Further Reading 84(1)
Index 85