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Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens (Intelligent Person's Guides)
Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens - Intelligent Person's Guides Author:Michael Slater Dickens is one of the greatest literary icons of British culture, a virtually inexhaustible source for the entertainment industry and media. Michael Slater has spent half a century reading and writing about him-above all enjoying him. In this book he provides a personal insight into the truth of a famous tribute paid to Dickens by a helper on ... more »his triumphal Public Reading tours: The more you want out of the Master, the more youll find in him. Offering an authoritative guide to the often misrepresented Dickensian values, Michael Slater ranges widely over the fiction, journalism, letters and speeches. He explores the leading ideas and beliefs, the artistic ideals and ambitions, that inspired and shaped Dickenss prodigious output. Dickens felt strongly that he was on a literary crusade against utilitarian thinking and social injustice. His thoughts are as relevant today as when he first wrote them down.« less