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Cargando... The Making of Charles Dickens (1967)por Christopher Hibbert
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a well researched analysis of the first 30 or so years of Dickens's life, tracing the links between the early events in his life and his developing literary approach. Much of this is material I have seen covered in other books, but Hibbert shows how repeated patterns come up, such as strong brother-sister relationships being seen as more ideal than husband-wife ones, reflecting in particular his close and, to modern eyes, bizarre, relationship with his sister in law Mary Hogarth who died so suddenly and so tragically young; and the repeated ripples of assertions of self confidence in later life reflecting the knock back Dickens suffered after his initial schooling in Chatham when he had to work in the infamous blacking warehouse on the site of what is now Charing Cross station. Much of Dickens's life and attitudes towards his own progress and relations with others seems to demonstrate an absolute imperative to avoid the feckless attitudes and precarious economic situation of his father John Dickens whom he had continually to bale out for the reminder of the latter's life. This is fascinating stuff though I did think Hibbert perhaps went slightly too far into Dickens's middle life to suit the title. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
This work presents a descripion of Charles Dickens's experiences between the age of four and twenty-four - the years which the author acknowledged as being the true source of his inspiration. Christopher Hibbert brings to life the age of the stage-coach and country inn, the gin shops, the fairs and the london underworld which shaped the life of Dickens as he progressed from love-sick youth to acclamation as the most brilliant writer of his generations. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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