The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary edition
Review from previous edition: ''will prove invaluable to scholars, readers and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond''  --Peter Ackroyd The Times''exemplary ... marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian''  --Robert McCrum Observer''as valuable a tribute to collective memory as one could wish for''  --Times Higher Education Supplement''quite staggering inclusiveness ... The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens is a treasure''  --Dickens Quarterly''comes about as close to perfection as humanly possible''  --Dickens Quarterly''A comprehensive guide ... lively ... a 'must' for all Dickensian devotees''  --Belfast Telegraph''an infuriatingly brilliant book''  --Wilkie Collins Society