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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This biography was written in 1902 by a retired professor of history and English literature at the University of Manchester. It is as well written as one would expect. It is interesting to read the account of someone only one generation younger than Dickens (Ward was born in 1837, the year when the first parts of Oliver Twist was published) and who had seen and heard the great man at one of his readings; his concluding chapter The Future of Dickens's Fame is a little downbeat about the author's long term legacy. His account is also, unsurprisingly for the time, coy in its treatment of personal subjects such as Dickens's separation from his wife, Catherine, which here happens almost incidentally and for no apparent reason or fault on either side; and no mention of Ellen Ternan at all (just an oblique reference that Dickens "thought it well......to rebut some slanderous gossip which, as the way of the world is, had misrepresented the circumstances of this separation"). His obsession as a young man with his sister in law Mary Hogarth is mentioned, in a way which contradicts our modern assumptions that such obsessions must be sexual in nature. So a fairly interesting read, but I would not recommend it particularly to other than Dickens completists. 3/5 ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882, this biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) provides a short introduction to the life and works of the most popular author of the Victorian era. Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924), a prominent scholar who taught at the newly founded the University of Manchester and became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and translated Curtius' History of Greece. His work complements earlier biographies of the writer who styled himself as 'The Inimitable' and whose influence as a novelist, social commentator and social reformer cannot be overstated. The life is treated chronologically, and a final chapter discusses 'the future of Dickens' fame', concluding that although he has faults as a novelist, his place in the canon of English literature is secure. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.8Literature English English fiction Victorian period 1837-1900Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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