Household Words

Download or read book Household Words: A Novel written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award "Unqualified praise goes to this rarity: an extraordinary novel about ordinary people." —Chicago Tribune The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an unexpected illness, and the contrary natures of her two daughters, Rhoda finds that fate undermines her sense of entitlement and security. Shrewd, wry, and sometimes bitter, Rhoda reveals herself to be a wonderfully flawed and achingly real woman caught up in the unexpectedness of her own life.

Download or read book Household Words : written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Household Words written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words written by Catherine Waters and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain predominantly middle-class readers. He filled the journal with articles about various commodities, many of which raise questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services.Although studies of Victorian commodity culture have tended to focus on the novel, scholarly interest in Victorian periodicals and material culture has been prompted by recognition of the major role the press played in disseminating knowledge and information about the proliferating world of goods. At the same time, periodicals like Household Words were themselves commodities that relied on their marketability for survival. This book provides a cultural study of the journal's representation of commodities that records the changing relationship between people and things exposed in the contributors' attempts to come to terms with the development of urban commodity culture at mid-century.

Download or read book Dickens, Journalism, Music written by Robert Terrell Bledsoe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.

Download or read book Words from the White House written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.

Download or read book Household Words written by Charles John Huffam Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: