Bücher von Pearson

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Contains essays that examine questions such as Dickens' symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry, and are concerned with such aspects of Dickens as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.

Presented here in its original German form, this 1887 volume relates to the legends surrounding Saint Veronica, the pious Jerusalem woman who reputedly offered her veil to Jesus as he walked to Golgotha, and then found an image of his face impressed upon the veil after he had wiped his brow with it.