Shakespeare and Dickens
Subtitle: The Dynamics of Influence
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780521031516
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Dickens, Charles, --1812-1870--Knowledge--Lit; Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Knowledge--Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: One of the childhood events to which Peter Ackroyd attaches particular significance is the occasion when Dickens was taken by his father to see a house at Gad's Hill, the house which the successful author would eventually purchase as his country home.