Charles Dickens as a Reader
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers interested in Dickens's life and public image
- Students of nineteenth-century English literary circulation and reading culture
- Readers who have read Dickens's major novels and want to learn about his reading selections
- Readers with English reading ability who collect public-domain literary historical materials
Not a good fit for
- Readers who have not yet read Dickens and want an introductory guide
- Readers expecting a systematic biography or complete critical commentary
- General readers with limited English reading ability who need a Chinese translation
Reading tips
- Read key passages from one or two of Dickens's representative novels first, then read the related reading accounts in this book to appreciate the difference in vocal performance.
- Treat the book as a literary historical profile, note the reading titles mentioned, and use them as a guide to return to the original works for close reading.
- Read it alongside background on Victorian public reading culture to understand the significance of reading tours as a mode of literary circulation.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Charles Kent (1823–1902) was an English poet and journalist, a man of letters of the Victorian era who was acquainted with Charles Dickens. Public information about his life is limited; his reputation rests chiefly on his literary connections and critical writing rather than on an extensive body of creative work. The one title held in this collection, Charles Dickens as a Reader, reflects his characteristic focus: examining Dickens's public readings from the perspective of a firsthand observer, while also touching on the reading tastes and the fashion for public speaking among Victorian literary circles. Writing of this kind usually begins from particular occasions and personal observation, in a plain, reportorial tone, and has value both as literary source material and as a record of its period. For researchers today, Kent's work can serve as supporting evidence for understanding Dickens's public image and the cultural atmosphere of his time, and it also points to the multiple facets of the nineteenth-century English journalist-poet.
