The Dickens Dictionary: An A-Z of England's Greatest Novelist by John Sutherland..For fans old and new, a fascinating tour through Charles Dickens’ novels in the hands of a master critic. Oliver Twist … Great Expectations … David Copperfield – all contain a riotous fictional world that still leaves and breaths for readers the world over today. But how much do we really know about Charles Dickens’ dazzling imaginiation, which has brought this all into being?
To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Dickens – 2012 - Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens’ novels, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay.
Covering America, Bastards, Childhood, Christmas, Empire, Fog, Larks, London, Madness, Murder, Orphans, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo to name but a few - John Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to Charles Dickens’ books.
