Peter Conrad

Dickens the Enchanter

Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

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Produktbeschreibung

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781399409193
• ISBN-10: 1399409190
• Artikelnr.: 70942115

Autorenporträt

Peter Conrad

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Visionary Companion
1 On Planet Dick
2 In the Family
3 In the Dark
4 Cabbalistic Words
5 The Great Creator
6 Devilkins
7 In Arabia
8 Species and Origins
9 In the Carvery
10 In the Forge
11 Arranging the Universe
12 Heroes of His Own Life
13 The So Potent Art
14 In the Crypt
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

In his new book, Peter Conrad draws on a lifetime's love of Dickens and an encyclopedic knowledge of his work to celebrate the novelist's magus power and the sheer fecundity of his imagination.