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Article: Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Horn Book, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations
48 pp. Morrow 8/93 ISBN 0-688-09110-5 15.00
Library edition ISBN 0-688-09111-3 14.93
(Intermediate)
Illustrated by Diane Stanley. A fine pictorial biography of Dickens brings his life before the young reader's eyes and does justice to his brilliance and creativity. The authors present Dickens's life as the source material of his famous works with great success, dwelling upon his unhappy experiences as a child and his hard-working youth. Dickens had the unusual opportunity of experiencing how both the extremely poor and the extremely well-to-do ...