The Comic World Of Dickens: The Wellers - Mrs Gamp - Mr Micawber
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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Few authors have populated the English literary imagination with characters as vivid, absurd, and enduring as Charles Dickens, and The Comic World of Dickens is a devoted celebration of his most beloved comic creations. This volume turns its full attention to three of Dickens's greatest comic triumphs — the irrepressible Weller family from The Pickwick Papers, the magnificently dissolute nurse Mrs. Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit, and the gloriously self-deluding optimist Mr. Micawber from David Copperfield — dissecting what makes each figure so irresistibly funny and so profoundly human. Published by the venerable John Murray of Albemarle Street, London, this study argues that Dickens's comic genius was no mere flourish but the very engine of his moral vision, using laughter to illuminate hypocrisy, poverty, and the absurdity of Victorian social convention. The prose is lucid and affectionate, written with the enthusiasm of a true devotee who understands that to laugh with Dickens is also to see the world more clearly. For anyone who has ever chuckled at Sam Weller's cockney wit or marvelled at Mr. Micawber's eternal expectation that something will turn up, this volume will leave you wondering which Dickensian comic masterpiece to revisit first.
Author: Various
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few authors have populated the English literary imagination with characters as vivid, absurd, and enduring as Charles Dickens, and The Comic World of Dickens is a devoted celebration of his most beloved comic creations. This volume turns its full attention to three of Dickens's greatest comic triumphs — the irrepressible Weller family from The Pickwick Papers, the magnificently dissolute nurse Mrs. Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewit, and the gloriously self-deluding optimist Mr. Micawber from David Copperfield — dissecting what makes each figure so irresistibly funny and so profoundly human. Published by the venerable John Murray of Albemarle Street, London, this study argues that Dickens's comic genius was no mere flourish but the very engine of his moral vision, using laughter to illuminate hypocrisy, poverty, and the absurdity of Victorian social convention. The prose is lucid and affectionate, written with the enthusiasm of a true devotee who understands that to laugh with Dickens is also to see the world more clearly. For anyone who has ever chuckled at Sam Weller's cockney wit or marvelled at Mr. Micawber's eternal expectation that something will turn up, this volume will leave you wondering which Dickensian comic masterpiece to revisit first.