The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 10: 1862-1864Volume 10: 1862-1864 (Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

9780198122944: The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition, Volume 10: 1862-1864Volume 10: 1862-1864 (Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0198122942 ISBN 13: 9780198122944

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1998

This volume presents 918 letters, 435 previously unpublished.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. Dickens entertains many of his friends at Gad's Hill which 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.

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About the Author:

Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of England's greatest novelists. Born into a poor family (his father was once imprisoned for debt), Dickens became both rich and famous in his lifetime. Graham Storey is a Fellow Emeritus, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Review:

"Superb editing, annotation, and indexing are providing a major reference tool, while each successive volume reads like a fresh narrative from Dickens's pen."--Victorian Studies

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