The story of little Dombey and other performance fictions
"This volume presents a selection of Charles Dickens's performance fictions, self-contained pieces that Dickens trimmed, reworded, and reshaped from his novels to deliver at his enormously popular public readings. Included here, together with an informative introduction and selection of ba...
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Format : | Book |
Language : | anglais |
Title statement : | The story of little Dombey and other performance fictions / Charles Dickens; general editors, Joseph Black ... [et al.] |
Published : |
Peterborough, ON :
Broadview Press
, cop. 2013 |
Physical Description : | 1 vol. (131 p.) |
Series : | Broadview anthology of British literature |
Summary : | "This volume presents a selection of Charles Dickens's performance fictions, self-contained pieces that Dickens trimmed, reworded, and reshaped from his novels to deliver at his enormously popular public readings. Included here, together with an informative introduction and selection of background materials, are "The story of little Dombey," "Mrs. Gamp," "David Copperfield," and "Sikes and Nancy.""--Cover, p. [4] |
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Bibliography : | Notes bibliogr. |
ISBN : | 978-1-554-81164-9 1-554-81164-3 |