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Chargement... A Message from the Sea (1860)par Charles Dickens
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was one of the more enjoyable of Dicken's collaborative works (in this case written with Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, Amelia Edwards and Harriet Parr). A Message from the Sea is a single integrated novella that tells a nautical adventure story combined with a family mystery all resolved through some pretty epically implausible coincidences. Dickens wrote three of the five chapters, and they are clearly recognizable and better, but the other two chapters are perfectly finely executed--with one being an shipwreck/castaway story that puts two enemies together on a small deserted island. The story revolves around an American captain who delivers a message found in a bottle to a family in small English fishing village (lovingly described by Dickens). This sets off an unfortunate event followed by an attempt to figure out the truth, which leads to another trip, an extended flashback about the shipwreck, and a final classic Dickens resolution of a large, happy group where the wronged are vindicated and the wrong are suitably chastened (in this case in absetenia), and everyone is set to live happily ever after. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Charles Dickens attained an astounding level of popular acclaim during his lifetime; Victorian audiences clamored for his traditional Christmastime stories every year. The tale A Message From the Sea is an example of one of Dickens' Christmas publications; although the nautical setting of the story is not what one would traditionally expect from a holiday publication, the themes of charity, good will, and rising above seemingly insurmountable odds are sure to spark a warm glow in readers' hearts any time of the year. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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At the center of the story is a series of tales written by several authors, Wilkie Collins and Harriett Parr among them. The central tales are as wonderful and riveting as the main story. When reading, I always try to put myself back in the time of the original release and think what such a story, read and reread at the Christmas season, would have been like for its Victorian audience. It is no wonder Dickens’ magazine was such a success.
Should you decide to read this novella, please seek out the complete version. Sadly, most of the reproductions list Dickens alone as the author and reproduce only the portion of the tale that he wrote. This leaves a very incomplete and unsatisfactory (in fact, unmeaningful) story. The complete version is contained in this edition (which is not listed on Goodreads) but can be found at Amazon for 99 ¢
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