The Shorter Novels Of Charles Dickens

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Publisher Place: Ware, Herts
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 1310 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens" shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed .brilliance of his story-telling.Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.Hard Times was attacked by Macaulay fonts sullen socialism, but 20th-century critics George Bernard Shaw and F.R. Leavis praised it in the highest terms.A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story.Great Expectations traces the life of Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man of characten From its dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with memorable characters - the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the beautiful Estella.

ISBN: 9781840220599