Clive Hurst

This short book is from the Dickens exhibit at the Bodleian Library. It focuses on the elements of Dickens life and work like food, railroads, prisons, workhouses, Christmas, publishing, and others. Each is the subject of a chapter with an introduction, extensive passages from Dickens or from his contemporaries, and then a number of illustrations drawn from the Bodleian's ephemera collection, like playbills, menus, manuals, and the like. Altogether it is an illuminating and interesting perspective that gives greater perspective to Victorian London. Plus it was good re-reading all the excerpts.… (més)

This short book is from the Dickens exhibit at the Bodleian Library. It focuses on the elements of Dickens life and work like food, railroads, prisons, workhouses, Christmas, publishing, and others. Each is the subject of a chapter with an introduction, extensive passages from Dickens or from his contemporaries, and then a number of illustrations drawn from the Bodleian's ephemera collection, like playbills, menus, manuals, and the like. Altogether it is an illuminating and interesting perspective that gives greater perspective to Victorian London. Plus it was good re-reading all the excerpts.… (més)