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The Friendly Dickens: Being a Good Natured Guide to the Art and Adventures of the Man who Invented Scrooge
The Friendly Dickens Being a Good Natured Guide to the Art and Adventures of the Man who Invented Scrooge Author:Norrie Epstein Norrie Epstein-whose The Friendly Shakespeare was called spirited, informative and provocative by The New York Times-strips away the polite veneer of Victorian society to reveal Dickens's life and times in all their squalor and glory. Along with a guide to all of Dickens's works, interviews with aficionados from Patrick Stewart to ... more »biographer Phyllis Rose, eye-catching illustrations, copious quotations, a highly opinionated filmography, and informative sidebars on almost every page, you'll find answers to such questions as:
Why are nineteenth-century novels so long?
What was Dickens's evil hour?
Why couldn't the Victorians resist a deathbed scene?
How many characters populated Dickens's first novel, The Pickwick Papers?
Why is Dickens the most popular-and the most despised-novelist in the world?
This Friendly companion to the man who called himself The Inimitable will have you running in delight to dust off your Dickens.« less