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Title: Pictures from Italy (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Kate Flint ISBN: 0-14-043431-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Careening Through Italy like the Dickens
Comment: I don't think I'd like to have Charles Dickens as my travelling companion. He's always on the go, seemingly preferring an enclosed carriage careening down the road to mixing it with the natives (he makes one exception for Genoa, where he spends twelve months). And he makes virtually no mention of his wife, to whom refers at one point as accompanying him, but who therupon disappears as surely as if she had fallen down a well. Finally, as a Roman Catholic, I would spend my trip grimacing at his observations of my faith.
The people appearing in PICTURES are almost entirely people encountered enroute, including postilions, innkeepers, guides, soldiers, and the like. He does not appear to have entertained any intention of interviewing writers, political leaders, prelates, or others. It is as if I took a trip through the U.S. and wrote only about bus drivers, service station attendants, traffic cops, and ticket takers.
And yet, and yet, it is obviously the great Charles Dickens writing this book. The writing is superb even if the subject matter is strangely limited. I was entertained, dismayed, and befuddled all at the same time. Comparing it to something like Mark Twain's INNOCENTS ABROAD or ROUGHING IT, however, I feel it is Twain who comes out ahead. Dickens, it seems, forgot to create any memorable characters.
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Title: American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham, Charles Dicken ISBN: 0140436499 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Italian Hours (Penguin Classics) by Henry James, John Auchard ISBN: 0140435077 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Selected Journalism 1850-1870 (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, David Pascoe ISBN: 0140435808 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: D.H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia, Etruscan Places (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0141180307 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (New Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens, Charles Collins, Luke Fildes ISBN: 0192545167 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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