The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist (HARDBACK)
UK £9.99,
UK Publication February 2012
ISBN 9781848313910
Hardback
Page Extent 224
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Oliver Twist … Great Expectations … David Copperfield – all contain a riotous fictional world that still leaves and breaths for readers the world over today.
But how much do we really know about Charles Dickens’ dazzling imaginiation, which has brought this all into being?
To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Dickens – 2012 - Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens’ novels, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay.
Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few - John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to Charles Dickens’ books.
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'John Sutherland, sharpest and wittiest of literary commentators, turns his attention to the Inimitable, with lively results' Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life
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John Sutherland is a pre-eminent literary figure - combining erudition and historical research with a taste for the modern and the new. He is the recently retired Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, a past Chairman of the Booker Prize panel and the author of one of the standard texts on Victorian fiction.
See more books by: John Sutherland
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