Subject: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Keywords)

Celebrated children's writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad's Hill Plae in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.

Nineteenth century private investigators American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor investigate the murder of Charles Dickens.

This work tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Douglas-Fairhurst examines a double transformation: in reinventing himself, Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

This companion is filled with wonderful and surprising things about Charles Dickens' books and characters and the movies and plays based on them, as well as Dickens himself.

It is in Bleak House that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. The essays collected here embody some of the approaches to Dickens, using Marxist, deconstructive, feminist and post-structuralist methods.

In the summer of 1857 the handsome Charles Dickens was to become obsessed with a woman who was to change his life forever, but to pursue her was to risk everything.

A great Victorian and prolific novelist, Dickens had a profound influence on the way his contemporaries saw their society, and the way we today view the Victorians. Abbott and Bell show the relevance of Dickens to modern readers.

This is a comprehensive survey of Dickens' work which analyses the systematic complexity of his writing. It is organised thematically, with the order in which the several themes are examined reflecting the progress of Dickens' career.

The books in Sutton's Pocket Biographies series offer concise overviews of significant historical figures, ranging from musicians to explorers, philosophers to monarchs and screen goddesses to scientists.