| The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Editionvolume 9: 1859-1861 Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Storey, Graham (Editor), Brown, Margaret (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198122934 ISBN-13: 9780198122937 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $437.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 65002115 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.34 lbs) 636 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, A Haunted House', A Message from the Sea', and Tom Tiddler's Ground'; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words. It also shows Dickens's delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill. |