num_pages: 634
description: This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861.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.
language: English
title: The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861
titlecomplete: The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 9: 1859-1861 (Dickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Clarendon Press