The Charles Dickens Miscellany

Author: Jeremy Clarke Series: Literary Miscellany

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This miscellany explores the staggeringly busy and diverse life of Charles Dickens, giving readers the chance to get to knowthe man through his work and its major themes.

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This miscellany explores the staggeringly busy and diverse life of Charles Dickens, giving readers the chance to get to knowthe man through his work and its major themes.

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Charles Dickens' life was staggeringly busy and various. This new miscellany will give readers a chance to get to know the man and his work through his work and its major themes. With carefully chosen quotations from the novels but also from his sketches and journalism, discover what Dickens had to say about the big issues like Crime, The Family, Education and Money. Meet here, too, those wonderful characters that have been handed down to us like the real figures of history - Mr Micawber, Fagin, Miss Havisham, David Copperfield and many more. What is it that made Dickens special? Concentrated in these pages is a selection of all the mad humour, passionate indignation, moral conviction, plain good sense and sheer unstoppable energy that made up one of the very greatest of English writers. 30 b/w illustrations

About the Author

Jeremy Clarke has worked in museums and historic buildings for 20 years, teaching all ages and abilities. In 1998 he joined the Guildhall Museum in Rochester. The life and work of local writer Charles Dickens is a solid feature of his school program.