Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Selected Letters of Charles Dickens What was it like to be Charles Dickens? This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters.…
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Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
What was it like to be Charles Dickens? This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters. His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity.
There seem to have been twice the number of hours in his day, and he threw himself into letter-writing as he did into everything else. From over fourteen thousand, four hundred and fifty have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of 'the Sparkler of Albion'.Dickens was a man with ten times the energy of ordinary mortals. This eagerly awaited selection takes us straight to the heart of his life, to show us Dickens at first hand.
Here he is writing out of the heat of the moment: as a novelist, journalist, and magazine editor; as a social campaigner and traveller in Europe and
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Selected Letters