Pictures from Italy
$34.80
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 January 1998
Summary
A thrilling travelogue of the year Dickens spent in Italy in the mid 1840s, published at a time when interest in his more marginal work is constantly increasing.
In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his experiences there. He presents the country like a magic-lantern show, as vivid images ceaselessly appear before his – and his readers’ – eyes. Italy’s most famou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434316 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140434313 |
| Author: | Charles Dickens, Kate Flint |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 January 1998 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812, the second of eight children. He received little formal education, but after a slow start, became a publishing phenomenon, and an instant success. Public grief at his death in 1870 was considerable- he was buried in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.
Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is author of The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (1993) and The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000), and has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century literary and cultural history. She is currently completing The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930.
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