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  1. The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
    Erschienen: 1989; ©1984
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

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    Beteiligt: Hardy, Thomas (MitwirkendeR)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781349101177
    Schlagworte: Hardy, Thomas,-1840-1928; Novelists, English-19th century-Biography; Novelists, English; Electronic books
    Umfang: 1 online resource (642 pages)
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  2. An Autobiography
    And Other Writings
    Erschienen: 2014; ©2014
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford

    The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edition shows how he exaggerated to create his compelling narrative, and includes other writings to show... mehr

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    The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. This edition shows how he exaggerated to create his compelling narrative, and includes other writings to show how subtle and complex his approach to literature really was. Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- An Autobiography -- Trollope on Jane Austen -- 'On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement' -- From Thackeray -- From 'The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne' -- From 'A Walk in a Wood' -- Appendix Passages Omitted From An Autoniography -- Explanatory Notes.

     

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    Beteiligt: Shrimpton, Nicholas (MitwirkendeR)
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191662782
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 2nd ed.
    Schriftenreihe: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
    Schlagworte: Trollope, Anthony,-1815-1882; Novelists, English-19th century-Biography; Electronic books
    Umfang: 1 online resource (369 pages)
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  3. His Master's Reflection
    Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byron's Doctor and Author of the Vampyre
    Autor*in: Edwards, Andrew
    Erschienen: 2018; ©2019
    Verlag:  Sussex Academic Press, Portland

    Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Illustrations -- Map: Key locations in the travels of John Polidori -- Chapter One - Starting Out: The High Road -- Chapter Two - The Low Countries: Flemish Faces -- Chapter Three - The Rhine:... mehr

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    Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Illustrations -- Map: Key locations in the travels of John Polidori -- Chapter One - Starting Out: The High Road -- Chapter Two - The Low Countries: Flemish Faces -- Chapter Three - The Rhine: Seduced by Loreley -- Chapter Four - Switzerland: The Summer of Creation -- Chapter Five - Italy: The Austrian Soldier's Hat -- Chapter Six - The Return: Dippel's Acid -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

     

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    Beteiligt: Edwards, Suzanne (MitwirkendeR)
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781782845683
    Schlagworte: Polidori, John William,-1795-1821-Travel; Byron, George Gordon Byron,-Baron,-1788-1824-Friends and associates; Polidori, John William,-1795-1821.-Vampyre; Novelists, English-19th century-Biography; Physicians-Great Britain-Biography; Electronic books
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  4. Library of Luminaries
    An Illustrated Biography
    Autor*in: Alkayat, Zena
    Erschienen: 2016; ©2016
    Verlag:  Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco

    Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- The Austen Family Tree -- Jane's Desk -- Georgian Dining -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Chronicle Ebooks. mehr

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    Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- The Austen Family Tree -- Jane's Desk -- Georgian Dining -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Chronicle Ebooks.

     

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    Beteiligt: Cosford, Nina (MitwirkendeR)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781452150536
    Schriftenreihe: Library of Luminaries
    Schlagworte: Austen, Jane,-1775-1817; Novelists, English-19th century-Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.-bisacsh; ART / Individual Artists / General.-bisacsh; Electronic books
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  5. Life of Charles Dickens
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, Hauppauge

    Intro -- Contents -- Preface* -- Chapter 1 -- Lesson of His Life and Writings - Character of His Genius - Ancestry - John Dickens, the Government Clerk - His Family - Removal to London - Newspaper Reporter - Micawber and Mrs. Nickleby - Charles... mehr

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    Intro -- Contents -- Preface* -- Chapter 1 -- Lesson of His Life and Writings - Character of His Genius - Ancestry - John Dickens, the Government Clerk - His Family - Removal to London - Newspaper Reporter - Micawber and Mrs. Nickleby - Charles Dickens's Education - Truth in Fiction - Rochester ... -- Chapter 2 -- English Lawyers - Articled Clerks - Short-Hand Writing - Dickens as a Reporter - Mirror of Parliament - True Sun - Morning Chronicle - First Authorship - Writing the "Sketches" - John Black, Our Old-Time Editor - Recollections by N. P. Willis - Publisher -- Chapter 3 -- The Origin of the Name of "Boz" ( Variety of the "Sketches" ( Epigram ( The Demosthenes of the Tap ( Old Bailey Characters ( Fagin and the Artful Dodger Shadowed Forth ( Bumble and Mrs. Gamp - Cruikshank's Illustrations ( The Countess and the Publisher -- Chapter 4 -- First Laurels Won ( How the "Pickwick Papers" Were Begun ( The Shilling Number System ( Green Paper Covers - Lever and Thackeray ( Mr. Sergeant Talfourd ( Copyright ( Proposed Nimrod Club ( Mr. Pickwick Found at Richmond - Reception of Pickwick ( Intr... -- Chapter 5 -- "The Wits' Miscellany" ( Dickens Edits Bentley's ( Douglas Jerrold - Artists and Authors - Dickens' Contributions ( Oliver Twist ( Purpose and Moral ( Author's Law ( Fagin's Conviction - Jacob's Island ( Dramatic Versions -- Chapter 6 -- Publications Unavowed or Forgotten ( Sunday in London ( The Poor Men's Sunday Dinner ( Sketches of Young Ladies and of Young Gentlemen ( Memoirs of Grimaldi ( The Pic-Nic Papers ( Thomas Moore's Prose and Verse ( Dramatic Performances: The Strange Gen... -- Chapter 7 -- Marriage ( George Hogarth ( A Compliment from Lockhart ( Dickens a Man of Method( The Misses Hogarth ( Fanny Hogarth's Sudden Death ( Publication Suspended ( Mr. Dickens Interviewed ( "Young Bozzes" -- Chapter 8 Retires from Bentley's Miscellany ( Retrospect ( Yorkshire Schools ( Picks up John Browdie and Wackford Squeers ( Nicholas Nickleby ( Dotheboys Hall ( The Crummles Party ( Cheeryble Brothers ( Change of Plot ( Authorship Avowed ( Portrait by Maclise (... -- Chapter 9 -- Master Humphrey's Clock ( Its Proposed Object ( Illustrations ( The Works - Author's Confession ( Mr. Pickwick and the Wellers Revived ( The Precocious Grandson ( Old Curiosity Shop ( Little Nell ( Thomas Hood ( Barnaby Rudge ( Riots of London ( The R... -- Chapter 10 -- Visit to America ( At Boston - Dickens's Dinner ( Geoffrey Crayon and Boz ( Dickens at Sunnyside ( In Philadelphia ( Washington ( In Congress -- Chapter 11 -- American Notes for General Circulation ( Pickwick Readings at a White-Smith's ( Reception of the Notes in England ( Other Tourists ( Change for the Notes ( Lord Jeffrey's Opinion ( Martin Chuzzlewit ( Crusade against Selfishness ( English Criticisms ... -- Chapter 12 -- Relations with Artists ( George Cruikshank ( Tom and Jerry ( How Oliver Twist Was Brought to London ( Re-Purchasing Copyrights ( Robert Seymour's Sketches ( Succeeded by "Phiz" ( The Author's Last History op Pickwick ( The Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa (... -- Chapter 13 -- Visit to Italy and Switzerland ( Editorship of Daily News ( London Newspapers - Pictures from Italy ( Return to Switzerland ( Dombey and Son ( Lord Jeffrey on the Death of Little Paul -- Chapter 14 -- Originals of Fictitious Characters ( Old Weller and Miss Huddart ( Mr. Tracy Tupman and The Fat Boy ( Mrs. Bardell ( Mr. Justice Stareleigh ( Mr. Sergeant Buzfuz ( Dodson and Fogg ( Mr. Perker ( Police Magistrate Fang ( Vincent Crummles ( W. T. Moncri... -- Chapter 15 Letter-Writing ( Epistolatory Mendicants ( A Note from Yorkshire ( Mr. Ewart ( A Slow Binder ( Master Humphrey's "Works" - Talfourd's Post-Prandial Reading ( Letters to Talfourd, Frank Stone, and Mackenzie ( Mammoth Journals ( The Moon Hoax ( Lord Nug... -- Chapter 16 -- Poetry in Prose - Thackeray's Opinion ( Rythmical Language ( Examples from Southey, Shelley, and Dickens ( Little Nell's Funeral ( Lesson of Death to Life - Smike's Grave-Stone ( Niagara ( Hymn of the Laborers ( A Word in Season -- Chapter 17 -- Little Dorrit ( The Circumlocution Office ( Hard Times ( Tale of Two Cities ( Great Expectations ( New Christmas Stories- Our Mutual Friend ( Amende to the Jews ( Systematic Business Habits ( Dealings with American Publishers -- Chapter 18 -- Charles Dickens's Names ( Odd Names ( Futility of Personal Argument ( Retort on Lockhart ( Making Friends ( Mr. Ree-Ack ( Lord Campbell ( Temperate Habits ( Undervaluing Shakespeare - Wordsworth and Dickens ( Philadelphia Streets ( Personal Tastes ( P... -- Chapter 19 -- Fondness for Theatricals ( Amateur Acting ( Lord Lytton's Play ( Queen Victoria ( Wilkie Collins's Plays ( Captain Bobadil ( Hans Christian Andersen at Gad's Hill ( Jerrold Memorial ( Public Readings ( Second Visit to America -- Chapter 20 -- Second Visit to America ( Rationale of His Readings ( Reception at Boston ( Effects of Thought and Time - Dramatic Power ( Long Walks ( List of Selections - Correspondence ( Last Readings in Boston and New York ( Press Banquet at Delmonico's ( Last Wo... -- Chapter 21 -- Return to England ( In Harness ( A New Reading ( Dinner at Liverpool ( Dangerous Illness ( Grave-Side Speech-Making ( Gad's Hill House ( Miss Clarke at Tavistock House ( Hans Christian Andersen ( Franklin Philp ( Habits of Work ( Long Walks ( M. Fecht... -- Chapter 22 Farewell Readings ( Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Visits Queen Victoria ( Honors Declined ( Speech at Royal Academy ( Ill Health ( The Last Week ( Closing Correspondence ( His Christian Belief and Hope ( Apoplexy ( Death ( Grief from Throne to Cottage ( Bu... -- Chapter 23 -- Purity of His Writings ( Variety of Subjects and Characters ( Absence of Egotism and Cynicism ( Compared with Thackeray ( Will His Writings Live? ( His Domestic Life ( His Broad Christianity ( The Caiaphas of Plymouth Church ( Tributes from the Pulpit... -- Uncollected Pieces by Charles Dickens -- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright -- (Janus Weathercock), The Poisoner -- Aboard Ship -- A Small Star in the East -- A Little Dinner in an Hour -- Mr. Barlow -- On an Amateur Beat -- A Fly-Leaf in a Life -- A Plea for Total Abstinence -- Full Report -- Of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Full Report -- Of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything -- Thackeray - In Memoriam -- The Will of Charles Dickens -- The Dickens Controversy -- From the Publishers' Circular of June 1st, 1867. -- Index -- Blank Page

     

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    ISBN: 9781536134278
    Schriftenreihe: Distinguished Men and Women of Science, Medicine and the Arts Ser
    Schlagworte: Dickens, Charles,-1812-1870; Novelists, English-19th century-Biography
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  6. Dickens
    A Biography
    Autor*in: Kaplan, Fred
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Open Road Media, Newburyport

    The engaging biography of one of the most celebrated and enduring authors of Western literature Charles Dickens grew up in harsh poverty and became one of the world's most beloved authors. Biographer Fred Kaplan takes a brilliant, multifaceted... mehr

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    The engaging biography of one of the most celebrated and enduring authors of Western literature Charles Dickens grew up in harsh poverty and became one of the world's most beloved authors. Biographer Fred Kaplan takes a brilliant, multifaceted approach in his examination of Dickens's life: his fraught marriage and relationships; the ever-present effects of his humble beginnings; his extensive, but carefully managed, public life; and his friendships with famous writers. Dickens unearths the complex passions that drove both the man and his work, illuminating why the legendary author-just like th

     

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    ISBN: 9781480409798
    Schlagworte: Novelists, English-19th century-Biography; Electronic books
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    Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface, 1998; CHAPTER ONE: Scenes of His Boyhood (1812-1822); CHAPTER TWO: The Hero of My Own Life (1822-1834); CHAPTER THREE: The First Coming (1834-1837); CHAPTER FOUR: Charley Is My Darling (1837-1841); CHAPTER FIVE: The Emperor of Cheerfulness (1842-1844); CHAPTER SIX: An Angelic Nature (1844-1846); CHAPTER SEVEN: As My Father Would Observe (1846-1849); CHAPTER EIGHT: No Need for Rest (1849-1853); CHAPTER NINE: The Sparkler of Albion (1853-1855); CHAPTER TEN: Superfluous Fierceness (1855-1857)

    CHAPTER ELEVEN: My Own Wild Way (1857-1859)CHAPTER TWELVE: A Splendid Excess (1860-1864); CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Sons of Toil (1864-1868); CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A Castle in the Other World (1867-1870); Notes; Image Gallery; Acknowledgments; Index; Copyright Page