The 1854 text, edited by Sylvère Monod, is accompanied here by explanatory footnotes. Contextual pieces by critics and theorists of Dickens time bring readers examples of their views on industrialism, education and utilitarianism. Included are eight new critical essays.
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Weight: 425g
Dimensions: 130 x 213mm
Publication Date: 12 Feb 2016
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393284386
About Charles DickensFred Kaplan
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby Barnaby Rudge A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Great Expectations Bleak House Hard Times Our Mutual Friend The Pickwick Papers and many more. Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center City University of New York. A biographer and literary scholar he is the author of John Quincy Adams: American Visionary The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Henry James: The Imagination of Genius: A Biography and Dickens: A Biography among others. His Thomas Carlyle: A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. His Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Fiction Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction and Miracles of Rare Device: The Poets Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry are important contributions to the study of Romantic and Victorian British literature and culture. He is currently at work on a study of Lincoln John Quincy Adams and slavery and a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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