ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1952
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Edgar Johnson - Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph
Simon and Schuster, 1952
1158 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Volume Two

A definitive biography of Charles Dickens, drawing on 1000s of letters, many unpublished, Johnson depicts not only him but also the world in which he lived. William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, and Queen Victoria are among the players in the drama of his life: a drama in which he appears as one of the most complex figures of his time, a man whose political and social crusades against illiteracy, capital punishment, unjust penal systems, and child abuse are as compelling as his literary achievements.

As the original 2-volume edition of Charles Dickens: His Tragedy & Triumph appeared, Lionel Trilling wrote: `We cannot say less of Mr. Johnson`s book than it is the definitive life of Dickens. & to say that is to say that it is a splendid achievement & a work of superlative interest & charm.`

V1 The anvil & the iron: 1812-33: Birth & background
The happy time
The challenge of despair
Ambition`s ladder
First love

Climb to fame: 1833-37: The career takes shape
Boz is born
Catherine
Pickwick triumphant
Knight of the joyful countenance

Troubles & triumphs: 1837-39: Metamorphosis of a journalist
Lost love
Ascent of the rocket
The break with Bentley
The will in command

Deeper cast: 1839-41: The thieves` den & the world
Master Humphrey`s clock strikes one
Emergence of a radical
The neglected & misused
Triumph in Scotland & the eve of a new departure

The new World: 1842: The American dream
Conquest
with undertones
Not the republic of my imagination
Return journey
Home again: valedictory on America

Crescendo of restlessness: 1843-46: Year of disappointment
Selfishness & the economic man
Battles & Italinan air-castles
From the bells of Genoa
...To the chimes of London
Last days in Italy
Birth pangs of the daily news

V2 At grips with himself: 1846-51: Difficulties with Dombey
The want of something
The world of Dombeyism
A haunted man
Myself into the shadowy world
His favorite child
Household words
Splendid barnstorming
Fog over England
The anatomy of society
The heaviest blow in my power
Critique of materialism
Fire bursts out
Nobody`s fault
Old hell shaft
The prison of society
Breaking point
The track of a storm
Surface serene
The tempest & the ruined garden
Intimations of mortality
The great dust-heap

The bottom of the cup: 1865-70: Pilgrim of Gad`s Hill
To the loadstone rock
Last rally
The dying & undying voice
The narrow bed