The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dickens

by Brian Murray

Book Overview

The Bedside Dickens provides a lively look at this great novelist's life and career. It sheds light on his role as a polemicist and journalist and explores the way his work was long informed by his Christian faith. It also reveals his most persistent literary themes and provides a vivid sense of how, among his contemporaries, Dickens' vast success-and his "radical" politics-provoked both admiration and scorn. Dickens, this study reminds us, saw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826418821
• ISBN13: 9780826418821
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"