UNOFFICIAL SELVES

by Charles Dickens, Patrick Swinden

A$30 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Character in the novel from Dickens to the present day. Pp. xii+272 last blank , bibliography, index; top edges purple; boards slightly flecked; dust wrapper; Macmillan, London, 1973. First edition. *Traces how the concept of literary character changes from the expansive social worlds of Charles Dickens to more modern 20th-century fiction. Novelists dealt with at length include George Eliot, W.M. Thackeray, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and Iris Murdoch. Item #078803

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