He saw the world’s cruel absurdities through a comic lens, writes Boyd, who recalls his very first meeting with Amis – and explains why his unmistakable voice will never be forgotten• John Self on Amis: ‘He stamped his style over a generation’• Geoff Dyer on Amis: ‘Mick Jagger in literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-22 07:00:49 UTC ]
Charles Dickens (1812-70) is best-known for his fifteen novels and for shorter books like A Christmas Carol. However, Dickens’s was a restless talent, and during his publishing career that spanned more than thirty-five years, he also wrote countless articles, essays, and short stories. Although... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-02-25 15:00:13 UTC ]
Veteran biographer A.N. Wilson takes on one of the most popular, prolific and puzzling writers in English literature in "The Mystery of Charles Dickens." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-06 14:00:54 UTC ]
Two sequels which show how the Victorian novelist's stories can be adapted to reflect post-colonial narratives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-06-08 16:19:12 UTC ]
Although it was the nineteenth century when the novel arguably came into its own, with novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters writing novels that are still widely read and studied today, the eighteenth century was the age in which the novel emerged as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-05-23 14:00:38 UTC ]
For decades, playwright and YA author Tim Mason has been intrigued by a minor character in Charles Dickens’s 'Bleak House.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Michael G. R Tolkien, the eldest grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, and Gerald Dickens, a great-grandson of Charles Dickens, have formed a "unique" collaboration to bring out an audiobook of the verse story WISH. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholastic will publish a new version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol “retold” by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Tony Ross, who the publisher said is directly descended from one of Dickens’ illustrators. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
If Google's vice president is to be believed we are in danger of losing an entire generation of information to the digital realm. Look to the history book, and you do just that -- look in a real, physical book. Pictorial histories can be found in photo albums. The works of Oscar Wilde, Samuel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2015-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: the final recollections of Charles Dickens, an eye-opening portrait of the South, and a punk rock memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'David Copperfield,' Mr. Micawber Wilkins saved young Copperfield from no small amount of embarrassment using quick thinking, graciousness, and a grill. Food historian Paula Marcoux explains how you can do the same. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author's exuberant use of words in private is as vivid as in public.The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations have rocketed thanks to the BBC's lavish... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]