Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens
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Admired by his contemporaries, and a hugely celebrated writer of his day, Charles Dickens is now remembered as one of the greatest English novelists and an influential spokesman for the conscience of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1854790471
ISBN13:9781854790477
Release Date:April 2003
Publisher:Michael O'Mara Books
Length:162 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 7.8"
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Passages from Dickens
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book is attractively presented with short introductory passages before each chapter.In the course of this Dickens' life- story is concisely told. But what surprised me was that the Dickens' texts themselves were not brief aphoristic or humorous 'lines' but rather true excerpts of paragraph length or more. And that many of these were at least in my reading of them not that humorous or witty at all. However the long passages produced do truly give a sense of what Dickens writing was all about. And thus this volume serves as a kind of small introductory guide to the work of Dickens. Here is a brief sample, one of the most famous of Dickens' passages. 'Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure ninetten six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and- and in short you are for ever floored. As Iam !' ( Mr. Micawber. 'David Copperfield.'
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