Mullan, John – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:42:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Mullan, John – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Artful Dickens https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-artful-dickens/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=17327 ‘This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book … It doesn’t go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens’ Howard Jacobson
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Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens.

From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters?

What was Dickens’s favourite way of killing his characters?

When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost?

Why is Dickens’s trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud?

In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens’s eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality and brilliance on full display.

‘Brilliantly sharp … Mullan makes us see that Charles Dickens was one of the most artful, which is to say skilled, writers the world has ever seen’ Mail on Sunday

‘Put it on your Christmas list and spend the post-goose collapse reading the good bits aloud’ Laura Freeman

‘Even if you know a lot about Dickens you will find revelations in this book, and if you know nothing about him it will be the perfect appetiser’ The Times, The best paperbacks of 2021

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]]> The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-artful-dickens-the-tricks-and-ploys-of-the-great-novelist/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-artful-dickens-the-tricks-and-ploys-of-the-great-novelist/ ‘One for your Christmas list ? A feast of Dickensian knowledge’ The Times ‘This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book … It doesn’t go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens’ Howard JacobsonDiscover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters?What was Dickens’s favourite way of killing his characters?When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost?Why is Dickens’s trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud? In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens’s eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality and brilliance on full display.

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