In Alfred Gibson the fierce energy and brilliance of the most famous of the Victorian novelists is recreated, in a heart-warming story of first love--of a cocky young writer smitten by a pretty girl in a blue dress Alfred Gibson's funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. Her younger daughter Kitty comforts her, until an invitation for a private audience with Queen Victoria arrives, and she begins to examine her own life more closely. Uncovering the true deviousness and hypnotic power of her celebrity author husband, she'll now need to face her grown-up children--and worse--her redoubtable younger sister, Sissy and the charming actress, Miss Ricketts. Forfatter: Gaynor Arnold Forlag: Tindal Street Udgivelsesår: 2008 Sider: 438 Sprog: Engelsk
Historisk roman af Charles Dickens om Barnaby Rudge og et større persongalleri i England under de politisk og socialt urolige tider i slutningen af 1700-tallet. Fortællingen skildrer optøjer, religiøse konflikter, sociale spændinger og hverdagsliv i og omkring London. Romanen kombinerer socialrealisme, spænding og psykologisk portrættering, typisk for Dickens’ victorianske forfatterskab, og giver både tidsbillede og dramatisk handling. Velegnet til læsere, der interesserer sig for klassisk engelsk litteratur, historiske romaner og samfundsskildringer. Type: Hardcover Klassisk roman af Charles Dickens, "Barnaby Rudge", i en udgave udgivet på dansk forlag. Forsiden viser en detaljeret sort-hvid illustration af en travl gade med historiske bygninger og mennesker i 1800-tallets London, mens forfatternavnet DICKENS og titlen Barnaby Rudge står trykt med grøn skrift. Bogen er indbundet med smu
"'Sometimes I have the feeling I'm going to turn out to be something queer when I grow up. Mathilda is so ordinary, she makes me feel special. I am not like her. I want to be different, I don't know how. Mathilda hates to be different. I am different already.' Millicent King, 26 November 1914 "'There was nothing ordinary about this woman. Indeed, I now wonder if there is any such thing as an ordinary life at all.' Margaret Forster, Introduction to "Diary of an Ordinary Woman Millicent King is an 'ordinary' woman living through extraordinary times in this brilliantly conceived piece of fictional memoir writing. Diary of an Ordinary Woman is the edited diary of fictional woman Millicent King (1901-1995). From the age of 13, on the eve of the Great War, Millicent King keeps her journals in a series of exercise books. The diary records the dramas of everyday life in an ordinary English famil
Den danske eventyrforfatteren H.C. Andersen besøkte sitt store forbilde Charles Dickens på hans landsted i Kent sommeren 1857. Etter dette møtet traff de to forfatterne hverandre aldri igjen. Romanen handler om Andersens kamp fra fattigdom til berømmelse, med fokus på hans forbudte kærlighetsoplevelser. Type: Hardcover
Newland skal giftes med May, men forelsker sig i hendes kusine, der er vendt hjem fra Europa til New York, hvor 1870'ernes velhavere er forargede over hendes skilsmisse Forlag: Penguin Books Udgivelsesår: 1993 Sider: 300 Sprog: Engelsk
Man læser Dickens af Christian Elling (Bog)
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy’s novels. Forlag: Penguin Mass Market Sider: 507 Sprog: Engelsk
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions. Forlag: Penguin Books Udgivelsesår: 1994 Sider: 390 Sprog: Engelsk
