Critical Insights: Charles Dickens: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781587656910)

This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on Dickens's most widely read works. The volume begins with a brief biography of Dickens and an examination of the time when Dickens wrote his most influential works. The essays that follow help the reader understand the critical issues surrounding Dickens's work, including an examination of the relationship between the orphan and urban society in Oliver Twist, a reading of Great Expectations as a sort of moral fable, and the structure and mythical dimensions of Bleak House.

Author: Eugene Goodheart
ISBN-10: 1587656914
ISBN-13: 9781587656910
Publisher: Salem Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2010
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 04/01/2011 pg. 75
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 233