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ISBN-10: 0140431039
ISBN-13: 9780140431032
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 07/30/1976
Dimensions: 7.78" L, 5.16" W, 1.04" H

Selected Short Fiction

Editor: Deborah A Thomas
Introduction by: Deborah A Thomas
Notes by: Deborah A Thomas

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Overview

Stories of comedy and character from one of Britain’s greatest novelists

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel 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 exploring the secret workings of the human mind. These short works display Dickens’s exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0140431039
ISBN-13: 9780140431032
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 07/30/1976
Dimensions: 7.78" L, 5.16" W, 1.04" H
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