Selected Journalism: 1850-1870 (Penguin Classics)
Those of us who, unconsciously, perhaps, think of Charles Dickens as more a phenomenon than a man may take special delight in hisSelected Journalismfor on every page his sense of himself as a particular man in a particular place and time is apparent in every sentence, and yet that ineffable other thing is there as well, that abiding inexhaustibility, that transcendent mastery of all the richnesses of the English language.   --The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Jane Smiley