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Dickens the Enchanter Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller | 1.31 MB
Title: Dickens the Enchanter
Author: Peter Conrad
Category: Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Biography & Memoir, Literary
Language: English | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1399409190
Description:
'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' - Spectator World
'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. - A. N. Wilson, The Oldie
A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he said, to rearrange the universe.
As well as re-examining the great novels, Conrad's book probes the journalism in which Dickens reports on his risky ventures into the urban underworld. It also describes the celebrated but dangerously over-intense public readings in which, as at a seance, he allowed his most terrifying characters to take possession of him. Ultimately it reveals how the forces of creation and...
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