Charles Dickens

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The Cricket on the Hearth

A Fairy Tale of Home

Beschreibung

Although a best seller in its day, The Cricket on the Hearth is seen by many of this generation as standing in the shadow of Charles Dickens’ more popular volume A Christmas Carol. Undeservedly so! A more-than-delightful trace through a Victorian Christmas, Dickens tells the story of a kindly couple and their mysterious lodger, a poor toymaker and his blind daughter, a lost son, and a parsimonious toy merchant set upon marrying a virtuous young maiden against her better desires. But as you’d expect from Dickens, a magic of sorts is stirring amidst the story’s participants—all under the watchful eyes of a songful cricket that, as Dickens takes hold of your imagination, may prove to be something so much more.

Autor

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Angels' Portion Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781734368734
• ISBN-10: 173436873X
• Artikelnr.: 58409549