Dickens the enchanter : inside the explosive imagination of the great storyteller
Conrad, Peter, 1948-2025
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See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he said, to rearrange the universe. Peter Conrad's bold rediscovery of Dickens suggests that he alone rivals Shakespeare and in some ways betters him. As well as re-examining the great novels, Conrad's book probes the journalism in which Dickens reports on his risky ventures into the urban underworld. It also describes the celebrated but dangerously over-intense public readings in which, as at a seance, he allowed his most terrifying characters to take possession of him.
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London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025.London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025.
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304 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399409193 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
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English
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BRN:
3039619