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The selected letters of Charles Dickens / edited by Jenny Hartley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Novelists, English--19th century--Correspondence.
- Novelists, English.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Correspondence.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (495 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters. 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. There seem to have been twice the number of hours in his day, and he threw himself into letter-writing as
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; A Chronology of Charles Dickens; Abbreviations and Symbols; SELECTED LETTERS; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-163584-7
- 1-280-59517-5
- 9786613625007
- 0-19-163583-9
- OCLC:
- 782918811
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