| Title | : | Charles Dickens (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Jane Smiley |
| Release | : | 2002-04-10 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | Charles Dickens (Unabridged) | Jane Smiley |
| Of Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley says that "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels." Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic—and lionized. Charles Dickens offers brilliant interpretations of almost all his major works, an exploration of his narrative techniques and his innovative voice and themes, and a reflection on how his richly varied lower-class cameos sprang from an experience and passion more personal than his public knew. |
