The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861

ISBN-13: 9780198122937 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 634 str.

Charles Dickens

Opis

This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861.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.

Recenzje

We get a lively sense of the hardworking novelist's distractions.