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Charles Dickens Selected Short Fiction |
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| Selected Short Fiction is a collection of witty and amusing short pieces that shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the ovel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. Impressionistic sketches combine imaginatively heightened travel journals with wry observations of home and abroad, while in his dramatic monologues, Dickens demonstrates his talent for exloring the secret workings of the human mind. These short works display his exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein. |
'She Vanished into infamous oblivion, with the dreaded face beside her that she had seen in her dream'
In her introduction, Deborah A. Thomas demonstrates how Dicken's short fiction relates to his novels and Christmas books, initiating or developing themes and styles that appear in them, and compares the supernatural stories with those of his contemporaries. This edition also includes a bibliography and notes. |
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Format: N/A
Title: Selected Short Fiction
ISBN/ Catalogue No: 0140431039
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: none
Date Published: none |
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