Dickens Club… Supplement to The Mystery of Edwin Drood 20 Aug 2024 * * * SPOILER ALERT * * * ". . . it must rank as Dickens’s strangest achievement.” (174) Ackroyd once again sets the stage for us in terms of…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Our Mutual Friend 16 Jun 2024 *** SPOILER ALERT *** Many people would now in fact regard it as the greatest of his works . . . Dickens was writing ahead of his time. (169) It…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller 12 Mar 2024 SPOILER ALERT “Amongst all the violence, and the sentimentality, and the melodrama, and the comedy, there is always here some sense of transcendence, some visionary apprehension which unites all the…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Little Dorrit 29 Oct 2023 SPOILER ALERT Below please find Peter Ackroyd's and G.K. Chesterton's brief discussions of Little Dorrit, as well as a very recent article by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. “. . . in…
Dickens Club… Supplement to “Hard Times” 6 Sep 2023 Here are Peter Ackroyd's and G.K. Chesterton's brief discussions of "Hard Times". Both seek to explain just what it was Dickens was striving to do in this novel and therefore…
Dickens Club… Narration in “Bleak House”: or, Is she or isn’t she??? 2 Jul 2023 SPOILER ALERT My report contains mention of important plot points that may not be known to first time readers of Bleak House. In my quick research into whether Esther is…
Dickens Club… Supplement to “Bleak House” 13 Jun 2023 SPOILER ALERT ALL THREE OF THESE ARTICLES CONTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT PLOT POINTS THAT WILL SPOIL THE FIRST TIME READER'S EXPERIENCE Here are three critiques of the wonderful Bleak House. To…
Dickens Club… Supplement to David Copperfield 11 Apr 2023 "If there is one book which establishes Dickens's unique presence as a writer who can be considered the last of the great eighteenth-century novelists and the first of the great…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Dombey and Son 23 Feb 2023 Here, as promised, is Peter Ackroyd's chapter on "Dombey and Son". It gives us a brief overview of Dickens's activities and state of mind in the months leading up to…
Dickens Club… Supplement to Christmas Books 26 Dec 2022 Attached are two chapters from Peter Ackroyd's wonderful little book: "A Christmas Carol & The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life & The Haunter Man…
All the (Dickensian) Year Round 