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Cendrillon : conte de fées en quatre actes et six tableaux
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ISBN: 2865970094 Year: 1982 Publisher: Brussel : BEBA Edities,

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Dickens's Great expectations
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ISBN: 0813159148 9780813159140 0813185289 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lexington University Press of Kentucky

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Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier's acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examined fierce literary competition between leading novelists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dickens's novels. Here, Meckier argues that in Great Expectations, Dickens not only updated David Copperfield but also rewrote novels by Lever, Thackeray, Collins, Shelley, and Charlotte and Emily Brontë. He periodically revised his competitors' themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic fairy tales imbued with Cinderella motifs. Dickens darkened his fa

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