The Children of Dickens

by SamuelMcchord Crothers, JessieWillcox Smith (Editor)

Overview

In this charming, beautifully illustrated book — out of print for more than sixty years — Samuel McChord Crothers warmly introduces children to the unique world of Dickens children: David Copperfield, the Micawber children, Joe the Fat Boy, Oliver Twist, the Jellyby family — to name a few. In 13 self-contained chapters, in simple, straightforward prose, Mr Crothers introduces the necessary background, and then gives us the scene itself as Dickens wrote it. The book is illustrated with the work of Jessie Willcox Smith, famous for her romantic and touching paintings and drawings of children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897334754
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/30/2005
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857-November 1927) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.

Table of Contents

I.	Dickens Himself	9
II.	Pip	17
III.	David Copperfield	29
	The Little Boy and the Hungry Waiter	37
IV.	Oliver Twist	43
V.	The Jellyby Children	59
VI.	Sissy Jupe	73
VII.	The Cratchits	83
VIII.	The Doll's Dressmaker	95
IX.	The Kenwigses	105
X.	The Boy at Todgers's	113
XI.	The Dombey Children	121
	How Florence Dombey was Lost in London	128
	Paul Dombey at Brighton	141
XII.	On the Way to Gretna Green	147
XIII.	The Infant Phenomenon	155