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The Charles Dickens--Thomas Powell Vendetta
Sidney P. MossCarolyn Moss
其他書名
The Story in Documents
出版Whitston Publishing Company, 1996
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN087875475X9780878754755
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mVWaAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Faithful are the wounds of friends," especially when they are embezzlers, forgers, and confidence men like Thomas Powell, who after escaping criminal prosecution in England abused his former friend and defender in 'Living Authors of England' (1849). Dickens retaliated and the affair ended in lawsuits and, the editors argue in their spirited and informed introduction and headnotes to these eighty or so documents, in the inspiration for the Carker brothers, Uriah Heep, and Jarndyce and Jarndyce."NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE