Pictures from Italy
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3.6 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This travelogue of Dickens's 1844 Italian sojourn retains the wit and sumptuous detail of his novels, but lacking an explicit narrative, the book never coalesces into much more than a series of sketches. The fragmentary nature of the text is exacerbated by the removal, by editor V. Geetha, of "sections that appear tediously familiar today." As a result, the most memorable sections of the book are not descriptions of the Italian countryside or cities, but Dickens's own reveries on memory and history, which still hold their power even in excerpt. In fact, the text is somewhat secondary in this handsome edition; the primary reason to obtain this volume is the gorgeous illustrative work of Italian artist Livia Signorini. Collaging old maps, postcards, and photographs, Signorini's design complements the introspective nature of Dickens's text, particularly when she interprets his surreal vision of Venice in an eerie, dream-like four-panel spread. So while Dickens aficionados may be disappointed by the textual liberties taken by Geetha, those interested in studying the ways in which visual art and text can interact with and complement one another will gain much from paging through this edition. Color illus.
Customer Reviews
Notes on Italy
Dickens has such wonderful descriptive powers that I could see the France and Italy of the nineteenth century very vividly. There is also of course Dickens' sense of the absurd, and his wry sense of humour. I'm going to read his notes on his travels in America now.
Pictures from Italy
Not good because the book have no pictures at all I recommend u to not download this book and I don't see why This book is like ranked #9 right now 2 star because it have good text, on this free category it will be supposed to be final rank. Thank for reading my review..... :)