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DICKENS and the city
by SCHWARZBACH, F. S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good copy.
- ISBN 10
- 0485111748
- ISBN 13
- 9780485111743
- Seller
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Lucca, Italy
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About This Item
London: The Athlone Press/University of London, 1979. Cover illustration: George Scharf: 'The strand from Villiers Street'. Contents: 1). 'Sketches by Boz': Fiction from the metropolis. 2). 'Pickwick papers', 'Oliver Twist' and 'Nicholas Nickleby': labyrinthine London. 3). 'The old curiosity shop' and 'Barnaby rudge': breakdown and breakthrough. 4). 'Martin Chuzzlewit': architecture and accomodation. 5). 'Dombey and son': the world metropolis. 6). 'Bleak house': homes for the homeless. 7). 'Hard times': the industrial city. 8). 'Little Dorrit': people like houses. 9). 'A tale of two cities', The uncommercial traveller' and 'Great expectations': paradise revisited. 10). 'Our mutual friend': the changing city. With epilogue (Dickens and the city), appendix I: a note on George Scharf, appendix II: a note on sources and further reading, select biography, notes and index. 9 plates. 258 pag. . 1st edition. Cloth with fine dustjacket. Good copy.. 22cmx14cm.
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- Bookseller
- Festina Lente (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013494
- Title
- DICKENS and the city
- Author
- SCHWARZBACH, F. S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good copy.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0485111748
- ISBN 13
- 9780485111743
- Publisher
- The Athlone Press/University of London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- london thames warren's blacking warehouse charles dickens victorian george scharf
- Size
- 22cmx14cm
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