The Dickens Dictionary A Key To The Plot And Characters In The Tales Of Charles Dickens With Copious Indexes And Bibliography

Author : Gilbert A. Pierce
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265363621
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Dickens Dictionary written by Gilbert A. Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens The dickens dictionary first appeared in 1872. The compilers placed on the title-page the apt quotation from Oldys: If he be ignorant, who would not wish to enlarge his knowledge If he be knowing, who would not willingly refresh his memory As a short cut to the abundant riches of Dickens it has served a most useful turn, and still more has it been an invaluable quickener of the memory and index to the great multitude of Dickens's creations. When the present edition of the complete writings of Charles Dickens was projected it became desirable to incorporate in the Dictionary references to the considerable additions now made to the body of Dickens's collected works, and to include also the indexes which should accompany the entire set. Some of the matter, moreover, which appeared in the Dictionary found its appropriate place in the introductions to the several volumes and in the Life, Letters, and Speeches. Accordingly it has seemed best to make a new and revised edition of the Dictionary to conform to the series, and in doing this the editor, while leaving the valuable work of his predecessors practically intact, has introduced certain new features. In place of the Principal Incidents which in each case fol lowed the Characters Introduced he has prepared an Outline of the novel to precede the Index to Characters, and in that Outline has introduced some of the illustrative extracts which were used to fill out the sketches of characters. The order of tales is that of the present edition of Dickens's works. For the purpose of making this volume a thorough companion to the series, as well as independently valuable, in addition to the indexes of char acters, alphabetically and in classification, previously given, a condensed bibliography is provided, an index of illustrators, by which one can trace the works of artists scattered through the volumes, and a general index to the contents of all the thirty one volumes preceding this, in which every novel, sketch, tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.