Knowing Dickens
ANOTHER MAN 109 attentively, it made me uncomfortable to observe that, every now and then, his sleepless eyes would come below t ...
110 KNOWING DICKENS to see the white marks of my fingers die out of the deep red of his cheek, and leave it a deeper red.” The p ...
ANOTHER MAN 111 amateur theatricals. Acting, he found, was a less isolating way than writing to become “another man.” As he prep ...
112 KNOWING DICKENS wrote to Collins from Boulogne in July 1854, inviting him out to play in London: “The interval I propose to ...
ANOTHER MAN 113 as close as they had once been, Dickens continued to appeal to Forster as his bar of conscience and respectabili ...
114 KNOWING DICKENS the two men had collaborated in drama as well as fiction. Dickens produced Collins’s play The Lighthouse at ...
ANOTHER MAN 115 Wardour enters carrying the failing Aldersley in his arms, gives him back to his betrothed, and then dies in nob ...
116 KNOWING DICKENS In August Dickens took The Frozen Deep to Manchester, with the purpose of raising money for Douglas Jerrold’ ...
ANOTHER MAN 117 in the dark, they reached a “Watercourse, thundering and roaring.” Dickens insisted they follow it down, “subjec ...
118 KNOWING DICKENS new state of mind). Idle goes on a long rant about Goodchild’s wrong idea of play: “Here is a man goes syste ...
ANOTHER MAN 119 the pair is never seen together again until Sydney Carton changes clothes with prisoner Evrémonde and dies by gu ...
120 KNOWING DICKENS form of tribute to Somebody for something that was never done, or, if ever done, that was done by Somebody E ...
ANOTHER MAN 121 inability to strive for his own advancement, and the opportunity of self- redemption through love. In this last ...
122 KNOWING DICKENS because he is a man who occupies a ground identical to Headstone’s; both men are drawn toward the corpse-rob ...
ANOTHER MAN 123 hoping to throw suspicion on Riderhood for his own assault on Wrayburn. In another of the novel’s great scenes, ...
124 KNOWING DICKENS The masculine force of John Harmon only emerges when he becomes an unnamed “man,” dressed up in George Radfo ...
ANOTHER MAN 125 the self. Fascination does not end or get diverted to other channels; it floats, in a perpetual state of knowing ...
126 Chapter 5 Manager of the House Shortly after Dickens’s twenty-seventh birth- day, he tried to put his parents away in a co ...
MANAGER OF THE HOUSE 127 just a mile out of Exeter. “Something guided me to it,” he wrote to Cathe- rine, “for I went on without ...
128 KNOWING DICKENS Wo rd s, acquiring and furnishing houses for his own family and others, and enforcing household disciplines ...
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