The Lock And Key Library - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles; De Quincey, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1419170481 ISBN 13 : 9781419170485

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When we consider Dickens's life and work, in comparison with that of the two great poets we have been studying, the contrast is startling. While Tennyson and Browning were being educated for the life of literature, and shielded most tenderly from the hardships of the world, Dickens, a poor, obscure, and suffering child, was helping to support a shiftless family by pasting labels on blacking bottles, sleeping under a counter like a homeless cat, and once a week timidly approaching the big prison where his father was confined for debt. In 1836 his Pickwick was published, and life was changed as if a magician had waved his wand over him. While the two great poets were slowly struggling for recognition, Dickens, with plenty of money and too much fame, was the acknowledged literary hero of England, the idol of immense audiences which gathered to applaud him wherever he appeared. And there is also this striking contrast between the novelist and the poets,--that while the whole tendency of the age was toward realism, away from the extremes of the romanticists and from the oddities and absurdities of the early novel writers, it was precisely by emphasizing oddities and absurdities, by making caricatures rather than characters, that Dickens first achieved his popularity.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A collection of classic mystery and detective stories. Contents: CHARLES DICKENS: The Haunted House No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man BULWER-LYTTON: The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain The Incantation THOMAS DE QUINCEY: The Avenger CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN: Melmoth the Wanderer LAURENCE STERNE: A Mystery with a Moral WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: On Being Found Out The Notch on the Ax ANONYMOUS Bourgonef The Closed Cabinet

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1419170481
• ISBN 13: 9781419170485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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