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The author of the critically hailed What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew takes readers on an engaging and high-spirited romp through Victorian England to expose the very human side of Dickens, the Brontes, Thackeray, and other great literary figures of the time. Illustrations.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
YAOnce again, Pool enters the literary world of Victorian England. He adeptly intertwines interesting moments in the lives of such renowned figures as Charles Dickens, the Brontës, and George Eliot with the history of the British book-publishing industry and the development of a newly emerging, educated middle class that became the market for the novel. The author includes several comparisons to modern-day life that are sure to put YAs in touch with this period. Photographs and portraits of authors and publishing locations appear throughout. A substantial bibliography of books and periodical articles is included. This book should appeal to those interested in these literary personalities and their work.Barbara Arthur, Kings Park Library, Burke, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
"Letting booksellers set prices... just allowed big booksellers to drive the `independents' out of business by underselling them.... it would destroy the country's intellectual life." A reflection on today's David and Goliath bookselling battles? NoAlexander Macmillan's reflections on England's 1852 discount controversy, just one of the many resonant and entertaining tales to be found in this book on the business of writing, publishing and bookselling in the Victorian age. The book's gimmicky title belies the author's intelligent telling of the transformation and maturation of the industry. The Victorian Greats are brought to life, their motivations and vulnerabilities revealed through their own letters, which Pool (What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew) expertly weaves into a lively dramatic narrative. While Dickens, Brontë, Thackeray and George Eliot chronicled the social condition of the time, industry innovators like W.H. Smith, who dispensed "portable books" at the first railroad station book stall, and Charles Mudie, whose circulating libraries commanded great power, stimulated the mass production of books and fostered widespread literacy throughout the country. Though Pool's occasionally convoluted prose could use the kind of editor saluted in its pages, this book tells the colorful stories behind the creators and the creation of the voluminous Victorian novels. Anglophiles and bibliophiles alike will relish this celebration of the rich and glorious history of publishing and bookselling. Photos. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Another informal, delightfully entertaining foray into the world of the Victorian novel by the author of What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (1993). In 1836, when Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers to accompany comic prints, prose writing was ``a low-rent activity,'' Pool notes. Yet within ten years, Dickens was besieged by fans during a visit to America, and the novel was well on its way toward such solid respectability that George Eliot's books could be termed ``second Bibles.'' When Wilkie Collins broke through that respectability with his ``sensation novels,'' the public gleefully responded by snapping up not just his writing but Woman in White cloaks and perfume--the commercial tie-ins of the day. It is with a puckish sense of humor and a sharp ear for gossip that Pool puts a human face on his account of the progress of English publishing. In his hands, subjects such as the constraints and demands of serial writing, the power of lending libraries, and the challenges of satisfying an increasingly straitlaced public morality become plot twists with which his characters must contend. And what characters! Charlotte Bront innocently setting off rumors by dedicating the second edition of Jane Eyre to Thackeray, whose wife was insane. Thackeray and Dickens squabbling publicly, ostensibly over a magazine article about the author of Vanity Fair (Urged to make peace, Thackeray said, ``It is a quarrel, I wish it to be a quarrel, and it will always be a quarrel.''). Dickens haunted by memories of working in a blacking factory: ``I often forget in my dreams that I have a dear wife and children . . . and wander desolately back to that time.'' Elizabeth Gaskell enthusiastically producing a biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë that turns out to be far more colorful than accurate. Great Books meets celebrity gossip: a rare, literate entertainment. (illustrations, not seen)
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Pool returns to the Victorian literary scene he limned so entertainingly in What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (S. & S., 1994) to explore in detail the publishing factors that propelled, most notably, the work of Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Thackeray, and George Eliot. Again Pool has done his homework, summoning up snappy facts to relate how the supremacy of the traditional "three-decker" editionmade popular by Sir Walter Scott's historical novels and perfected by the firm of Henry Colburn, though costly and high-browwas challenged by the faster, cheaper magazine serial first utilized to mass acclaim with Dickens's Pickwick Papers. Pool's hopscotch approach takes some getting used to, and his lack of notes and bibliography are irksome; moreover, his focus is so narrow that he ignores the influence of the great 18th-century novelists and dismisses for the most part literary ramifications in other European capitals. While scholars have covered this era exhaustively, Pool will find an audience among general readers.Amy Boaz, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.