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007241
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Great Britain, Heinemann Library, 2001.
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64pOchre Spine
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Creative Lives
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| Summary/Abstract |
Charles Dickens tells his compelling story, from the tribulations of his early childhood and his first job in a blacking factory, to his rise to fame as a writer who captured the spirit of his age in a profound and entertaining way.
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'The novelist of his age'
The mask of childhood
Trials and tribulations
Debt and disaster
Dickens in the wider world
The years of struggle
The solitary abserver
Marriage to Catherine Hogarth
Travels in the USA
The novel years
The death of Charles Dickens
The legacy of Charles Dickens
Timeline
Glossary
Places of interest and further reading
Index
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043113989X Pb.
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| 007682 | 921/DIC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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007897
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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246pBrown Spine
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Cambridge collections
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A collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories. Covers a variety of themes such as adventures, childhood, urbanisation and relationships.
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Adventures -
The water babies - Charles Kingsley
Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
How to reach the pole - The Graphic
Messages without wires - Guglielmo Marconi
A lady's fire in the rocky mountains - Isabella Bird
The war of the worlds - H.G. Wells
Activities
Childhood -
The way of all flesh - Samuel Butler
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Ragged schools - The illustrated London news
A London child of the seventies - Molly Vivian Hughes
A horseman in the sky - Ambrose Bierce
War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
Activities
Urbanisation -
Children in the coal mines : The 1842 report - R.H. Horne
The cry of the children - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Narrative of a pickpocket - Henry Mayhew
Song of the shirt - Thomas Hood
Mary Barton - Mrs Gaskell
The disturbances in the manufacturing districts - The Illustrated London News
1851; or the adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys - Henry Mayhew
Bleak house - Charles Dickens
Activities
Relationships -
The pickwick papers - Charles Dickens
The son's veto - Thomas Hardy
Laws concerning woman - Barbara Bodichon
The small house at Allington - Anthony Trollope
Definition of a gentleman - John Henry Newman
Adam Bede - George Eliot
The book of household management - Mrs Isabella Beeton
My rights - Susan Coolidge
A doll's house - Henrik Ibsen
Activities
Notes on authors
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97805521703178 Pb.
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| 008266 | FIC/MAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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