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Author:	Jane Smiley	Publisher:	Penguin USA
ISBN-10:	0670030775	Subject:	Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13:	9780670030774	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2002	Condition:	Brand New
Special Attributes:	--

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Novelist Jane Smiley seeks to tell readers just who Charles Dickens was, not by reciting the well-known facts of his life but through his books.
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Series:	Penguin Lives Series

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Length:	212 pages
Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	11.2 oz.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres offers an intriguing portrait of the nineteenth-century English author, offering a sensitive profile of Dickens's life, incisive interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style.
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"In so short a book there is no room for extended critiques of individual novels, but Smiley gives a lucid account of Dickens's development as a novelist, and makes the grounds for her admiration clear....[She] has enhanced our understanding and appreciation of [Dickens's] work...." Atlantic Monthly - David Lodge (05/01/2002) "Jane Smiley on Dickens ought to be unmissable, but this is a serious disappointment. The very strong impression the book gives is that it has been written by someone conscious that they ought to be on their best behaviour, and rather nervous about the prospect. It feels very much like someone who is trying her best to write in an uncongenial mode, and saying the sorts of things which she thinks she ought to be saying....The tangible nervousness emerges on almost every page, with judgments which accord with conventional wisdom and not the inquiring magpie reader Jane Smiley must be....The insistent crackle of wit present on every page of Jane Smiley’s novels has bafflingly been replaced by the vaguest and least thoughtful phrases of reviewers." Spectator - Philip Hensher (08/10/2002) "Jane Smiley...is at her best when she offers her own insights, and it is a pity so much of her telling of the life is drawn from Peter Ackroyd's biography, as she freely acknowledges. She has sensible things to say about the way a novelist tries to rationalize the world around him, and how he may then try to make the world fit the vision he has established in his books....As a critic Smiley has less to offer....finally, a critical biography of over 200 pages and costing £15 should have an index." Times Literary Supplement - Claire Tomalin (08/23/2002)

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Charles Dickens

ISBN:	9780670030774
Author:	Smiley, Jane
Publisher:	Penguin USA
Published:	5/1/2002
Pages:	212
Binding:	HARDCOVER
Weight:	0.7000 lbs.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres offers an intriguing portrait of the nineteenth-century English author, offering a sensitive profile of Dickens's life, incisive interpretations of his major works, and a study of his narrative techniques, themes, characters, and style. 25,000 first printing.

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