Stand Up Mr. Dickens: A Dickens Anthology - Hardcover

Blishen, Edward; Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395756561 ISBN 13: 9780395756560

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

With commentary interwoven among extracts from some of his books, Charles Dickens is presented in terms of a well-known performer as well as a famous novelist, in a study that provides information on the unique literary talent that kept audiences captivated.

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Blishen won the Carnegie Medal with Leon Garfield for the God Beneath the Sea (1970). For Kingfisher he has compiled several collections in the Treasury of Stories series and Children's Classics to Read Aloud.

From Booklist:

Gr. 7^-10. Dickens loved reading aloud from his novels, and his public readings were acclaimed by huge audiences. This large-size, illustrated anthology captures the drama of the performances. Blishen includes selections that are still great for acting and reading aloud; they will also make kids want to read more of Dickens. Long excerpts from Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, Dombey & Son, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations are introduced with lively information about Dickens' life and work. For each selection, Blishen summarizes just what you need to know about "the story so far . . ." Of course, the famous scenes are here--Oliver Twist asks for more, Marley's Ghost terrifies Scrooge--but there are also some great passages that are less well known. Jill Bennett's watercolor-and-crayon full-page art and small pen-and-ink sketches on every page are done in a comic, theatrical style that connects the characters in the stories with the people in the audience, enthralled by "the greatest reader of the greatest writer of the age." Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395756561
• ISBN 13: 9780395756560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 87
• Illustrator: Bennett Jill