British Academy;the Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles - Dickens: Volume 10: 1862 186

Zusatztext we are faced with a figure who challenges us in a different way from the probing, sparkling, illuminating actor and observer of the 1840s and 1850s. This appears more clearly because of the Pilgrim's editing, its continued reliability and restraint and balanced judgement, and its attention to the general scene. As conceived and carried through, this is a superlative work on a grand scale. The editing is challenging in its restraint. It gives the evidence, and leaves conclusions to be drawn by readers ... there is a great deal in the ongoing Letters which is illuminating, that may prevent oversights about Dickens and his writing, and that is even essential to a full understanding. Klappentext This volume presents 918 letters, 435 previously unpublished. Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's main work in this period, comes out monthly from 30 April 1864 to 31 October 1865. The three highly successful All the Year Round Christmas numbers, "Somebody's Luggage", "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" and "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy", take up much of his energies. Public readings continue, though less frequently; and Gad's Hill, where he entertains many of hisfriends, plays an increasingly major part in his life. But there is no other period in which he visits France so often, generally alone. The deliberately mystifying language he uses about these visits suggests he was seeing Ellen Ternan there, but there is no evidence to prove it. Zusammenfassung Volume 10 in the British Academy, or Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens edited by Graham Storey. The volume contains 918 letters dated between 1862 and 1864, during which time, Dickens was writing Our Mutual Friend, and paying regular visits to France.

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• Authors: Charles Dickens, Dickens Charles
• Assisted by: Graham Storey (Editor), Storey Graham (Editor), Margaret Brown (Co-editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780198122944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812294-4
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition; Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition; Letters of Charles Dickens; Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Editi; The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, Autobiography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form