Title: Selected letters of Charles Dickens
Description: What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pilgrim Edition of his letters. From over fourteen thousand, four hundred and fifty have been cherry-picked to give readers the best essence of 'the Sparkler of Albion'. Here he is writing out of the heat of the moment: as a novelist, journalist, and magazine editor; as a social campaigner and traveller in Europe and America, and as friend, lover, husband, and father.
Subjects: Correspondence, English Novelists, Biography, Authors, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870, Authors, english, Authors, correspondence
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 19th century