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By Howard, Tom1995., Grange Books Call No: 823 A933h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Traces her life and writing and the places associated with them. Photos. show what can still be seen, despite the lapse of two centuries of the life, the towns and the countryside that Jane Austen knew.
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2011., Penguin Press Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description.
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1969., Evans Bros. Call No: 823 B869s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in perspective
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2012., General, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Bio D548g Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created--from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield--was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened to those children is the fascinating subject of Robert Gottlieb's Great Expectations. With sympathy and understanding he narrates the highly various and surprising stories of each of Dickens's sons and daughters, from Kate, who became a successful artist, to Frank, who died in Moline, Illinois, after serving a grim stretch in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Each of these lives is fascinating on its own; together they comprise a unique window on Victorian England as well as a moving and disturbing study of Dickens as a father and as a man.--From publisher description.
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2018., Pegasus Books Call No: Bio S545s Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2000., Grove Press Call No: Bio S5455s Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Woolf, Jenny2010., St. Martin's Press Call No: Bio C319w Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A portrait of the author of "Alice in Wonderland" analyzes contradictory aspects of his character, tapping recently discovered sources to set Carroll's life in the context of Victorian England, and assesses his financial difficulties and his relationship with the real Alice.
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c1978., Random House Call No: Bio K57bi Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library