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  • Dickens, Death, and Christmas

    by Robert L. Patten ...
    "Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? This book starts at the Paris Morgue and takes Dickens through his Christmas experiences from childhood and beyond, his celebrations of the season, and the sorrows that he often ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

    Edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan, Catherine Waters ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

    A Tribute to John Sutherland

    by Tony Bareham, Michael Caines, Mario Curreli, Simon Eliot, Lara Feigel, David Finkelstein, Simon Frost, Simon Gatrell, Philip Horne, Graham Law, Deirdre Le Faye, David Lodge, Brian Maidment, Karl Miller, K. M. Newton, Robert L. Patten, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Scott, Joanne Shattock, Cedric Watts, Alexis Weedon, René Weis, Troy J. Bassett, Linda Hughes, Rosemary Ashton ...
    This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Nature, Politics, and the Arts

    Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring

    by Nina Auerbach, John Clubbe, Carl Dawson, William Theodore de Bary, George H. Gilpin, William Carl Gilpin, Jonathan Gross, Regina Hewitt, Steven E. Jones, Marsha Manns, Martin Meisel, Morton D. Paley, Robert L. Patten, Donald H. Reiman, Ben P. Robertson, Robert M. Ryan, G. Thomas Tanselle, Carol Kyros Walker, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Anne K. Mellor ...
    This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures

    Edited by Robert L. Patten ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him. The collection describes a world animated by outpourings of print materials: books, serials, newspapers, periodicals, libraries, paintings and prints, parodies and plagiarisms, censorship, advertising, as well as theatre and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Charles Dickens and 'Boz'

    The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author

    by Robert L. Patten ...
    Dickens' rise to fame and his world-wide popularity were by no means inevitable. He started out with no clear career in mind, drifting in and out of the theatre, journalism and editing before finding unexpected success as a creative writer. Taking account of everything known about Dickens' apprentice years, Robert L. Patten narrates the fierce struggle Dickens then had to create an alter ego, Boz, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Invented Christmas

    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    by Les Standiford ...
    As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In)

    How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

    by Les Standiford ...
    As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Turning Point

    1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World

    by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst ...
    A major new biography that takes an unusual and illuminating approach to the great writer—immersing us in one year of his life—from the award-winning author of Becoming Dickens and The Story of Alice.The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty, and disease. It is also a turbulent year in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Merry Heart

    Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

    by Robertson Davies ...
    "A splendid gallimaufry of the eminent Canadian's talks and essays, mostly about literature and the creative life . . . a thought-filled and amusing book."— The Washington PostFor devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the "urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef," vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).Robertson ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dickens Dictionary

    An A-Z of Britain's Greatest Novelist

    by Jon Sutherland ...
    For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', created a riotous fictional world that still lives and breathes for thousands of readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought all this into being?For the bicentenary of Dickens' birth, Victorian literature expert ... Read more

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