Nonesuch Dickens Retrospectus and Prospectus
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766134492
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Illustration; History - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Commercial - Illustration; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: IT is the common fate of popular and public characters to stand at the mercy of eavesdroppers and gossip-mongers, and to find their stray and thoughtless exclamations solemnly recorded as deliberate judgments.