A reader's guide to Charles Dickens
"Hobsbaum begins with a brief discussion of Dickens's political reportage and his pamphleteering for prison reform, and describes the earliest works, including Dickens's first book, Sketches by Boz. In the main part of the book, the novels - early, middle, and late - are treated in equal detail. As they relate to Dickens's life and to the situation of contemporary England, Dombey and Son, the masterpiece Bleak House, and Hard Times are considered works of art. Little Dorrit, which many consider Dickens's finest creation, is a highlight of Hobsbaum's study. In dealing with the last works, he includes a unique perspective to the unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1998
1st Syracuse University Press ed View all formats and editions
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 1998
Handbook
318 pages ; 21 cm.
9780815604754, 0815604750
37903586
Sketches by Boz (1835-36)
Pickwick Papers (1836-37)
Oliver Twist (1837-38)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), Master Humphrey's Clock (1840)
Barnaby Rudge (1841)
American Notes (1842), Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44), Chapters XV-XVII, XXI-XXIV, XXXIII-XXXIV
Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44)
Christmas Books -. A Christmas Carol (1843). The Chimes (1845). The Cricket on the Hearth (1846). The Battle of Life (1847). The Haunted Man (1848)
Letters on Social Questions (1846-50), Pictures from Italy (1846)
Dombey and Son (1846-48)
David Copperfield (1849-50)
Household Words (1850-59), Reprinted Pieces (1858), All the Year Round (1859-70), The Uncommercial Traveller (1860-69)
Christmas Stories (1852-67)
Bleak House (1852-53)
Hard Times (1854)
Little Dorrit (1855-57)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Great Expectations (1861)
Our Mutual Friend (1864-65)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
App. I. The Mudfog Papers (1837-39), Sketches of Young Gentlemen (1838), Sketches of Young Couples (1840)
App. II. A Life of Our Lord (1849), A Child's History of England (1853)
App. III. Hunted Down (1859), No Thoroughfare (1867), George Silverman's Explanation (1868), A Holiday Romance (1868)
Originally published: New York : Straus and Giroux, ©1972