Shorter Novels of C.Dickens (TPB)
Dickens, Charles
This collection brings together perhaps the finest of Dickens` shorter novels, filled with event, character, and the unsurpassed brilliance of his story-telling. Oliver Twist enhanced and strengthened Dickens` reputation and contains classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Hard Times was attacked by Macaulay for its "sullen socialism", but 20th-century critics - George Bernard Shaw and Leavis praised it in the highest terms. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens` greatest historical novel, traces the lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. A fascinating range of characters and Dickens` usual...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-059-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2011