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Index
Cover
Front Matter
Title Page
Publisher Information
Dedication
Dickens
Quotes
Putting Dickens on the Map
Introduction
Why the Dickens?
A national treasure
Happy Christmas?
A critical reception
You can’t win them all…
A tale of two centuries
Life and works
CHAPTER ONE: WHO THE DICKENS?
Stranger than fiction
Nearest and dearest
What’s in a name?
‘Below stairs’
That’s no lady…
Instant Dickens 1: Sketches by Boz
Fact and fiction 1
What a disgrace!
More bills to pay
Instant Dickens 2: The Pickwick Papers
Fact and fiction 2
Happy days
Fact and fiction 3
Servants’ scary stories
Instant Dickens 3: Oliver Twist
Fact and fiction 4
First love
No going back
One wife, three sisters
‘Amiable and excellent’
Instant Dickens 4: Nicholas Nickleby
Not enough…
‘So perfect a creature’
Fact and fiction 5
‘I only want to be free’
Supernatural attraction!
Time to part
‘Little housekeeper’
A double life
Instant Dickens 5: The Old Curiosity Shop
Faithful friend
‘Why was I ever a father?’
Instant Dickens 6: Barnaby Rudge
CHAPTER TWO: WHERE THE DICKENS?
Letting off steam
Kill or cure
Getting the habit
Onwards... and downwards
Fact and fiction 6
Instant Dickens 7: Martin Chuzzlewit
Married life, family travels
Funny peculiar
No place like home
Boz on slums
Instant Dickens 8: A Christmas Carol
Putting on the style
America, America
A ‘stupendous property’
So near, so far
A summer retreat
Instant Dickens 9: Four more Christmas tales
‘The Inimitable Boz’
CHAPTER THREE: WHAT THE DICKENS?
In trim
My way...
Feed the mind?
A cut above
The master’s voice
Fine and dandy
Instant Dickens 10: Dombey and Son
The man behind the mask?
What they said...
Instant Dickens 11: David Copperfield
CHAPTER FOUR: WHEN THE DICKENS?
The best of times, the worst of times
Instant Dickens 12: Household Words and All the Year Round
Instant Dickens 13: Bleak House
A better future?
A ‘sentimental radical’
Novels with a cause
Which way forward?
Instant Dickens 14: Hard Times
Words not deeds?
I believe…
Happy ever after?
Instant Dickens 15: Little Dorrit
Cosy Cottage?
CHAPTER FIVE: HOW THE DICKENS?
Instant Dickens 16: A Tale of Two Cities
Step by step
How to write like Dickens
Taking the plunge
Man at Work
Rich and rare, weird and wonderful
Let me entertain you…
Instant Dickens 17: Great Expectations
Into print – Dickens and the publishing business
‘Working the copyrights’
Instant Dickens 18: Our Mutual Friend
A taste of Dickens
A few last words…
Instant Dickens 19: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
‘Fullness Of Life & Energy’
A dreadful memory
Unfair advantage
An ideal student?
Hello sailor!
Who woz Boz?
Glossary
End matter
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