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Dickens, Monica: Thursday Afternoons. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books, 1960.
Guter Zustand. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. - Monica Enid Dickens (born May 10, 1915, London - died December 25, 1992, Reading, Berkshire) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.[1] Biography: Known as 'Monty' to her family and friends, she was born into an upper middle class London family to Henry Charles Dickens (1878-1966), a barrister, and Fanny Runge. She was the grand-daughter of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens KC, the eminent judge. Having become disillusioned with the world she was brought up in - she was expelled from St Paul's Girls' School in London before she was presented at court as a debutante - she decided to go into service despite coming from the privileged class; her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, One Pair Of Hands in 1939. One Pair Of Feet (1942) recounted her work as a nurse, and subsequently she worked in an aircraft factory and on a local newspaper in Hitchin - her experiences in the latter field of work inspired her 1951 book My Turn To Make The Tea.[2] Soon after this, she moved from her home in Hinxworth in Hertfordshire to the United States after marrying a United States Navy officer, Roy Stratton, and adopting two girls, Pamela and Prudence. She lived in Washington, D.C. and Falmouth, Massachusetts and continued to write, most of her books being set in Britain. She was also a regular columnist for the British women's magazine Woman's Own for twenty years. Monica Dickens had strong humanitarian interests which were manifested in her work with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (reflected in her 1953 book No More Meadows and her 1964 work Kate and Emma), the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (coming to the fore in her 1963 book Cobbler's Dream), and the Samaritans, the subject of her 1970 novel The Listeners - she helped to found the first American branch of the Samaritans in Massachusetts in 1974. From 1970 onwards she wrote a number of children's books; the Follyfoot series of books followed on from her earlier adult novel Cobbler's Dream, and were the basis of a children's TV series, also called Follyfoot, produced by Yorkshire Television for the UK's ITV network between 1971 and 1973 (and popular around the world for many years thereafter). In 1978 Monica Dickens published her autobiography, An Open Book. In 1985 she returned to the UK after the death of her husband, and continued to write until her death on Christmas Day 1992, her final book being published posthumously. She was also an occasional broadcaster for most of her writing career. wikipedia-org-wiki-Monica_Dickens Aus: wikipedia-org

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Dickens. -- Die Welt des Charles Dickens. Hrsg. von E. W. F. Tomlin. Deutsch von Eva Gärtner. Hamburg, Hoffmann u. Campe, 1969. Kl.-4to. Mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen u. getönten Abb. 279 S. Or.-Lwd. mit Schutzumschlag; dieser mit kl. Randläsuren.
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Dickens, Charles: Dombey and Son. Complete with 62 illustrations by F. Barnard. Mit einem Vorwort des Verfassers. London, Chapman and Hall, no date, ca. 1894.
Befriedigender Zustand. Einband gedunkelt. Buchrücken am Fuß mit einem kleinen Ausriß (2 cm). Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. The cover is darkened. Satisfying Condition. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but travelled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son. ... Critical appreciation: Dombey and Son was conceived first and foremost as a continuous novel. A letter from Dickens to Forster on 26 July 1846 shows the major details of the plot and theme already substantially worked out. According to the critic George Gissing, 'Dombey was begun at Lausanne, continued at Paris, completed in London, and at English seaside places; whilst the early parts were being written, a Christmas story, The Battle of Life, was also in hand, and Dickens found it troublesome to manage both together. That he overcame the difficulty-that, soon after, we find him travelling about England as member of an amateur dramatic company-that he undertook all sorts of public engagements and often devoted himself to private festivity-Dombey going on the while, from month to month-is matter enough for astonishment to those who know anything about artistic production. But such marvels become commonplaces in the life of Charles Dickens.'[5] George Gissing, Chapter VII: Dombey and Son, The Immortal Dickens, London: Cecil Palmer, 1925] As with most of Dickens' work, a number of socially significant themes are to be found in this book. In particular the book deals with the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain. Other themes to be detected within this work include child cruelty (particularly in Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, and as ever in Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof. Another strong central theme, which the critic George Gissing elaborates on in detail in his 1925 work The Immortal Dickens,[6] is that of pride and arrogance, of which Paul Dombey senior is the extreme exemplification in Dickens' work. Gissing makes a number of points about certain key inadequacies in the novel, not the least that Dickens's central character is largely unsympathetic and an unsuitable vehicle and also that after the death of the young Paul Dombey the reader is somewhat estranged from the rest of what is to follow. He notes that 'the moral theme of this book was Pride-pride of wealth, pride of place, personal arrogance. Dickens started with a clear conception of his central character and of the course of the story in so far as it depended upon that personage; he planned the action, the play of motive, with unusual definiteness, and adhered very closely in the working to this well-laid scheme'. However, he goes on to write that,'Dombey and Son is a novel which in its beginning promises more than its progress fulfils' and gives the following reasons why: " Impossible to avoid the reflection that the death of Dombey's son and heir marks the end of a complete story, that we feel a gap between Chapter XVI and what comes after (the author speaks of feeling it himself, of his striving to "transfer the interest to Florence") and that the narrative of the later part is ill-constructed, often wearisome, sometimes incredible. We miss Paul, we miss Walter Gay (shadowy young hero though he be); Florence is too colourless for deep interest, and the second Mrs. Dombey is rather forced upon us than accepted as a natural figure in the drama. Dickens's familiar shortcomings are abundantly exemplified. He is wholly incapable of devising a plausible intrigue, and shocks the reader with monstrous improbabilities such as all that portion of the denouement in which old Mrs. Brown and her daughter are concerned. A favourite device with him (often employed with picturesque effect) was to bring into contact persons representing widely severed social ranks; in this book the "effect" depends too often on "incidences of the boldest artificiality," as nearly always we end by neglecting the story as a story, and surrendering ourselves to the charm of certain parts, the fascination of certain characters.'[7] ^ George Gissing, Chapter VII: Dombey and Son, The Immortal Dickens, London: Cecil Palmer, 1925] ... The growth of the railways: A strong theme is the destruction and degradation (of people and places) caused by industrialisation, illustrated in particular by the building of the new railway through Camden Town (assumed to represent the London and Birmingham Railway constructed between 1833 and 1837). This reflects Dickens's apparent antipathy towards railways[citation needed], later reinforced by his involvement in a train crash in 1865. Soon after this incident he wrote two short stories (Mugby Junction and The Signal-Man) which projected a morbid view of the railways. Final thoughts: Gissing refers to Dickens's instinctive genius for reflecting the thoughts and morals of the common man in his writing. He observes that the author was in constant communication with Forster, " ... as to the feeling of his readers about some proposed incident or episode; not that he feared, in any ignoble sense, to offend his public, but because his view of art involved compliance with ideals of ordinary simple folk. He held that view as a matter of course. Quite recently it has been put forth with prophetic fervour by Tolstoy, who cites Dickens among the few novelists whose work will bear this test. An instinctive sympathy with the moral (and therefore the artistic) prejudices of the everyday man guided Dickens throughout his career, teaching him when, and how far, he might strike at things he thought evil, yet never defeat his prime purpose of sending forth fiction acceptable to the multitude. Himself, in all but his genius, a representative Englishman of the middle-class, he was able to achieve this task with unfailing zeal and with entire sincerity.[11] " George Gissing, Chapter VII: Dombey and Son, The Immortal Dickens, London: Cecil Palmer, 1925] Karl Smith, in his turn, gives his specific reasons for what makes Dombey and Son - and the works of Dickens as a whole - worth reading again and again. He observes that this is based in part on Dickens's 'recognition that solemn themes require humour and verbal vigour to accompany and complement them' and goes on to conclude: "Grim psychological realism, social commentary, comic absurdity and symbolic transcendence are here brought together more than in any previous novel with the possible exception of Oliver Twist. Dombey and Son not only prepares the ground for Dickens's later masterpieces, but demands to be enjoyed for its own energy and richness.[12] ^ Dombey and Son, Introduction, Karl Smith, Wordsworth Classics] wikipedia--wiki-Dombey_and_Son Aus: wikipedia-

Household edition. x, 449 pages with sixty-two Illustrations by F. Barnard. 423 Seiten mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen Ilustrationen in Holzstich im Text und auf Tafeln. 25,5 x 19,5 cm. Rotes Leinen mit goldgeprägten Rücken- und Deckeltiteln, blindgeprägten Deckelverzierungen, farbigen Vorsätzen und Kopffarbschnitt.

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Dickens, Charles: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Complete with 59 illustrations by F. Barnard. Mit einem Vorwort des Verfassers. London, Chapman and Hall, no date, ca. 1894.
Guter Zustand. Einband gedunkelt. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. The cover is darkened. Good Condition. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialized between 1843-1844. Dickens himself proclaimed Martin Chuzzlewit to be his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels. Like nearly all of Dickens' novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly instalments. Early sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed the author to portray the United States (which he had visited in 1842) satirically as a near wilderness with pockets of civilization filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. The main theme of the novel, according to a Preface by Dickens, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens' great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens. ... Anti-Americanism: The novel was (and is still) seen by some to contain attacks on America, although Dickens himself saw it as satire, similar in spirit to his "attacks" on the people and institutions of England in novels such as Oliver Twist. Americans are satirically portrayed as snobs, windbags, hypocrites, liars, bores, humbugs, braggarts, bullies, hogs, savages, blackguards, murderers and idiots; and the Republic is described as "so maimed and lame, so full of sores and ulcers, foul to the eye and almost hopeless to the sense, that her best friends turn from the loathsome creature with disgust". Dickens also attacks the institution of slavery in America in the following words: "Thus the stars wink upon the bloody stripes; and Liberty pulls down her cap upon her eyes, and owns oppression in its vilest aspect for her sister" (Pearson 1949: 129-29). In order to clarify his intent and purpose as satire and show his respect for the United States, Dickens in 1868 added an appendix in which he expressed his "high and grateful sense of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity." He acknowledged the country had improved in the years since his first visit, and he expressed the hope that these words of clarification would always be printed with future editions of the book. In popular culture: Lisa Simpson mentions Martin Chuzzlewit in The Simpsons episode "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?": she lists it as one of the books she would receive from the Greater Books of the Western Civilization, an obvious joke regarding the book's comparative unpopularity. The CGI movie Barbie in a Christmas Carol features a snotty cat named Chuzzlewit, who is the pet of Barbie's character, Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in A Love Song for Bobby Long. The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel The Eyre Affair. In the Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead", after expressing his admiration for Dickens other works, The Doctor criticizes the work saying, "Mind you, for God's sake, the American bit in Martin Chuzzlewit, what's that about? Was that just padding? Or what? I mean, it's rubbish, that bit." wikipedia--wiki-Martin_Chuzzlewit Aus: wikipedia-

Household edition. vi, 423 pages with fifty-nine Illustrations by F. Barnard. 423 Seiten mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen Ilustrationen in Holzstich im Text und auf Tafeln. 25,5 x 19,5 cm. Rotes Leinen mit goldgeprägten Rücken- und Deckeltiteln, blindgeprägten Deckelverzierungen, farbigen Vorsätzen und Kopffarbschnitt.

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