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Dickens' London

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See London come alive through Dickens’ eyes, with 31 of the earliest surviving photographs of his day.
Dickens’ London is a unique interpretation of the spirit of Victorian London in the company of the master medium of the Age, as the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.

London was on the threshold of enormous expansion and change: it was the coming of the Great Age. But to the boy Dickens, forcibly separated from his family, it was a terrifying place.

Alone he’d walk the slum-ridden, shabby, depressed and dirty streets, stand and stare at busy street corners, peep down dark, dismal courts, and feed his insatiable curiosity with ‘wild visions’ that were in monstrous empathy with his deep sense of despair.

Two centuries later, the sights and sounds of that city, its colour and suffering, reach out through his writings and a collection of stunning pictures to lovers of London and fans of Dickens everywhere.

‘An imaginative and graceful interpretation of Dickens’ vision of London…fascinating…vivid.’ Sunday Mirror

‘Remarkably engrossing… It is certain that anyone with a love for Dickens will want to have it in hand.’ Oxford Times

‘Beautifully written…it’s one of the most engrossing books I’ve discovered this year.’ Woman and Home

Piers Dudgeon is the author of thirty works of non-fiction. In 1979, after launching a successful mass-market paperback imprint for a leading London publisher, he started up Pilot Productions, producing books with authors as diverse as John Fowles, Catherine Cookson, Peter Ackroyd, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Conran, Ted Hughes and Susan Hill. In 1993, he left London for North Yorkshire, where he has written books about Catherine Cookson, Daphne du Maurier, J M Barrie, the lateral thinker Edward de Bono, the composer Sir John Tavener, and the bestselling novelists Barbara Taylor Bradford and Josephine Cox. He is also known for a library of illustrated books evocative of the spirit of place, including Thomas Hardy’s England, Dickens’ London, The English Vicarage Garden, Village Voices, and The Spirit of Britain: A Guide to Literary Britain, and a series of oral histories undertaken in the East End of London, Glasgow and Liverpool.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Acorn Independent Press

Release: December 06, 2011

Dickens' London

0/5 ( ratings)

See London come alive through Dickens’ eyes, with 31 of the earliest surviving photographs of his day.
Dickens’ London is a unique interpretation of the spirit of Victorian London in the company of the master medium of the Age, as the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth.

London was on the threshold of enormous expansion and change: it was the coming of the Great Age. But to the boy Dickens, forcibly separated from his family, it was a terrifying place.

Alone he’d walk the slum-ridden, shabby, depressed and dirty streets, stand and stare at busy street corners, peep down dark, dismal courts, and feed his insatiable curiosity with ‘wild visions’ that were in monstrous empathy with his deep sense of despair.

Two centuries later, the sights and sounds of that city, its colour and suffering, reach out through his writings and a collection of stunning pictures to lovers of London and fans of Dickens everywhere.

‘An imaginative and graceful interpretation of Dickens’ vision of London…fascinating…vivid.’ Sunday Mirror

‘Remarkably engrossing… It is certain that anyone with a love for Dickens will want to have it in hand.’ Oxford Times

‘Beautifully written…it’s one of the most engrossing books I’ve discovered this year.’ Woman and Home

Piers Dudgeon is the author of thirty works of non-fiction. In 1979, after launching a successful mass-market paperback imprint for a leading London publisher, he started up Pilot Productions, producing books with authors as diverse as John Fowles, Catherine Cookson, Peter Ackroyd, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Conran, Ted Hughes and Susan Hill. In 1993, he left London for North Yorkshire, where he has written books about Catherine Cookson, Daphne du Maurier, J M Barrie, the lateral thinker Edward de Bono, the composer Sir John Tavener, and the bestselling novelists Barbara Taylor Bradford and Josephine Cox. He is also known for a library of illustrated books evocative of the spirit of place, including Thomas Hardy’s England, Dickens’ London, The English Vicarage Garden, Village Voices, and The Spirit of Britain: A Guide to Literary Britain, and a series of oral histories undertaken in the East End of London, Glasgow and Liverpool.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Acorn Independent Press

Release: December 06, 2011

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