Christmas Stories: 17 (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Margaret Lane (Introduction), Charles Dickens (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), Margaret Lane (Introduction), Charles Dickens (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1956

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  'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.

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  Paperback
  2005

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  Christmas, for Charles Dickens, was a magical time, when people opened 'shuttered-up hearts', and let the threads of their lives become entangled with their fellowman. It inspired some of his finest and most memorable writing, together with many unforgettable characters. Christmas Stories is a collection of sketches and tales of the first order. This was Dickens' own miscellany, complete with a host of the most pleasant villains, heroic children, tyrants and, of course, a ghost. This volume captures all the excitement and sparkle of a very special time of year.