Letters of Charles Dickens 1847-1849: Vol 5 por Dickens, Charles - 1981

Oxford University Press, USA, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Oxford: The Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1989. This volume presents 1,248 letters, 480 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1847 to 1849. They are years of success and stability. Dickens completes the serial publication of Dombey and Son in April 1848 and begins David Copperfield in May 1849. Other publications are his fifth and last Christmas book, The Haunted Man, and numerous articles for the Examiner. In March 1847 the first number of the Cheap Edition of his works is published; and by the autumn of 1849 plans for his weekly journal, Household Words, are well advanced. Amateur theatricals and the planning of Miss Coutts's Home for Homeless Women' (Urania Cottage), take up his remaining energies. Holidays are spent at Broadstairs and in the Isle of Wight. The volume includes his letters to Forster about making use of his autobiography' in David Copperfield. Appendixes include an unpublished draft prospectus, prepared by Dickens, for a self-insurance scheme for… Ler mais