dickens, charles

A collection of essays which provide critical commentary on Charles Dickens' "Hard Times"; includes a brief introduction to Dickens' life and times, summaries of the novel's themes, and a chronology of Dickens' life and career.

Contains fifteen essays in which the authors analyze various aspects of Charles Dickens's nineteenth-century novel "A Tale of Two Cities.".

A collection of critical essays on Dicken's novel "Great Expectations.".

A biography of Charles Dickens, discussing how his father's debts forced him to go to work in a shoe polish factory, and looking at how his observations of the poor led him to write novels with an eye toward bringing attention to the plight of London's destitute children.

Presents the life of the English author, focusing on his prodigious writings of all types, his public readings, his compassion for the poor and downtrodden of Victorian society, and his charitable works, along with a critical analysis of his major novels.

A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

Critical essays.

A graphic novel adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations" in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.