DICKENS JOURNALISM VOL 3: VOLUME III GONE ASTRAY & PAPERS HOUSEHOL (The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens' Journalism, Vol 3) [Hardcover]

MICHAEL SLATER (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0814208207 | ISBN-13: 978-0814208205 | Edition: 1

Between July 1851 and January 1859 Dickens published two of his greatest novels, Bleak House and Little Dorrit, as well as his most urgently topical one, Hard Times. Throughout, he was also actively engaged in editing his popular weekly journal, Household Words, for which he also wrote, apart from his regular Christmas stories, some seventy full-length articles, and co-authored at least two dozen more. This third volume of the first-ever fully annotated edition of Dickens's greatest journalism presents over sixty of those Household Words articles written by Dickens alone.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 542 pages
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814208207
• ISBN-13: 978-0814208205
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,233,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

One of the grand masters of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.