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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198126182
ISBN-139780198126188
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Book TitleLetters of Charles Dickens : the Pilgrim Editionvolume 7: 1853-1855
Number of Pages998 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1993
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections
AuthorCharles Dickens
Book SeriesDickens: Letters Pilgrim Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height2.3 in
Item Weight51.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Reviews"No single letter, however, prepares you for the sense of energy you get from the volume as a whole....There are displays of energy that wear you down, and displays that make you feel more alive yourself. Dickens's are of the second kind....Like earlier volumes in the Pilgrim series, this new one has been impeccably edited; like them, too, its has a double appeal. It leaves you feeling that you know Dickens much better, and it takes you deep in Victorian life."--John Gross, Sunday Telegraph "An example of literary scholarship to which all of us may aspire, but which few will be able to equal."--Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London) "This, the most recent volume of the altogether admirable Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' correspondence, is as fine as its predecessors: handsomely bound and printed, expertly edited, generously capacious, and scaffolded with impeccable critical apparatus."--Virginia Quarterly Review "The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume VII is a book of brilliant things...The editors have done a superb job, as ever..."--The Independent "NO WONDER Charles Dickens believed in spontaneous combustion. The three years covered by this volume are so absurdly full of life that he seems himself in danger of burning up or flying apart."--Observer, 'This, the most recent volume of the altogether admirable Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' correspondence, is as fine as its predecessors: handsomely bound and printed, expertly edited, generously capacious, and scaffolded with impeccable critical apparatus ... This is a necessary volume for thosediscerning souls who recognize Dickens for what he was: the greatest novelist in the English language.'Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1994, 'The 1,271 Dickens letters presented in this volume (with all the scrupulous edting and richly detailed annotation that is the hallmark of this great edition ... a reader with even the most sketchy knowlege of Dicken's biography will often feel like someone sensing an approaching hurricane.We await the next volume of this superb edition with keen anticipation.'Michael Slater, Guardian, "No single letter, however, prepares you for the sense of energy you get from the volume as a whole....There are displays of energy that wear you down, and displays that make you feel more alive yourself. Dickens's are of the second kind....Like earlier volumes in the Pilgrim series, this new one has been impeccably edited; like them, too, its has a double appeal. It leaves you feeling that you know Dickens much better, and it takes you deep in Victorian life."--John Gross, Sunday Telegraph"An example of literary scholarship to which all of us may aspire, but which few will be able to equal."--Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)"This, the most recent volume of the altogether admirable Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' correspondence, is as fine as its predecessors: handsomely bound and printed, expertly edited, generously capacious, and scaffolded with impeccable critical apparatus."--Virginia Quarterly Review"The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume VII is a book of brilliant things...The editors have done a superb job, as ever..."--The Independent"NO WONDER Charles Dickens believed in spontaneous combustion. The three years covered by this volume are so absurdly full of life that he seems himself in danger of burning up or flying apart."--Observer, 'As with the previous volumes in the Clarendon Press edition prepared by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Angus Easson, nothing could be better than the presentation: you visit the past in a state of perfect enjoyment, safe in the surest of editorial hands ... Much as Dickens would havehated to have his letters collected and published, even he might have cheered the efficiency of this particular operation ... We are all again deeply indebted to the editors.'R Times Literary Supplement, 'No single letter prepares you for the sense of energy you get from the volume as a whole. ...The footnotes in particular teem with fascinating detail ... impeccably edited ... takes you deep into Victorian life.'John Gross, Sunday Telegraph, 'The Pilgrim Edition of Charles Dickens's letters is one of the glories of British publishing. ... conforms to the very highest standard of literary scholarship. ... the letters are a glorious collection of the human and natural raw material from which he fashioned his stories. There are nodull pages, and Inimitable, indeed!'Paul Johnson, Evening Standard, 'The Pilgrim Edition of Charles Dickens's letters is one of the glories of British publishing. It is awesomely expensive but conforms to the very highest standards of literary scholarship. These volumes, in fact, are wide and clear windows into the early Victorian world as well as into thedoings of the master ... the letters are a glorious collection of the human and natural raw material from which he fashioned his stories. There are no dull pages, and few without a memorable image and a noble sentiment. Inimtable, indeed!'Paul Johnson, London Evening Standard, 'nearly all of them are interesting; faced with roughly 800 pages of correspondence the immediate impulse is to skim, yet one risks overlooking some sardonic glint or glancing bon mot, scintillas of pure Dickensian comedy...there is more than enough to delight in these bustling, vivid, funnypages.' The Independent, "No single letter, however, prepares you for the sense of energy you get from the volume as a whole....There are displays of energy that wear you down, and displays that make you feel more alive yourself. Dickens's are of the second kind....Like earlier volumes in the Pilgrim series, this new one has been impeccably edited; like them, too, its has a double appeal. It leaves you feeling that you know Dickens much better, and it takes you deep in Victorian life."--John Gross,Sunday Telegraph "An example of literary scholarship to which all of us may aspire, but which few will be able to equal."--Peter Ackroyd,The Times (London) "This, the most recent volume of the altogether admirablePilgrim Editionof Dickens' correspondence, is as fine as its predecessors: handsomely bound and printed, expertly edited, generously capacious, and scaffolded with impeccable critical apparatus."--Virginia Quarterly Review "The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume VIIis a book of brilliant things...The editors have done a superb job, as ever..."--The Independent "NO WONDER Charles Dickens believed in spontaneous combustion. The three years covered by this volume are so absurdly full of life that he seems himself in danger of burning up or flying apart."--Observer, 'The best new reading is almost 150 years old: The Letters of Charles Dickens. 1858-1855 ... the finest collection of letters ever produced in this country.'Derwent May, The Times, 'The magnificent Pilgrim Edition ... firmly established as one of the outstanding scholarly achievements of this century.'British Book News
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Number of Volumes12 vols.
Volume NumberVol. 7
SynopsisThis volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855, plus a substantial Appendix and Addenda containing over 280 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes., This volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix of Addenda, over 280 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes. The period is one of activity remarkable even for Dickens. Besides the continuous editing of Household Words (where his Hard Times appears as a weekly serial), he is still at work on Bleak House until August 1853 and in 1855 is writing the early numbers of Little Dorrit. He manages and acts in children's plays in his little Tavistock House theatre on Twelfth Night, and later takes the leading part in Wilkie Collins's drama The Lighthouse with great effect. Work with Miss Coutts and the troublesome inmates of her 'Home' increases, and readings for charity have begun. The Crimean war and the government's mismanagement receive much comment in letters and satirical articles, and lead to one exceptional venture into political life with a speech for the Administrative Reform Association. But his long and happy periods of residence in France with his family encourage a more detached view, and he also revisits Switzerland and Italy on a two-month tour with Collins and the painter Augustus Egg. Friends and family still dominate his personal life, but for a few weeks long-past emotions are revived when he hears from his old love Maria Beadnell, now a middle-aged Mrs Winter., This volume presents 1,251 letters, 447 previously unpublished, for the years 1853 to 1855; it also includes, as a substantial Appendix of Addenda, over 280 letters of the years 1831 to 1852 which came to light too late for earlier volumes. The period is one of activity remarkable even for Dickens. Besides the continuous editing of Household Words (where his Hard Times appears as a weekly serial), he is still at work on Bleak House untilAugust 1853 and in 1855 is writing the early numbers of Little Dorrit. He manages and acts in children's plays in his little Tavistock House theatre on Twelfth Night, and later takes the leading part in Wilkie Collins's dramaThe Lighthouse with great effect. Work with Miss Coutts and the troublesome inmates of her 'Home' increases, and readings for charity have begun. The Crimean war and the government's mismanagement receive much comment in letters and satirical articles, and lead to one exceptional venture into political life with a speech for the Administrative Reform Association. But his long and happy periods of residence in France with his family encourage a more detached view, and he alsorevisits Switzerland and Italy on a two-month tour with Collins and the painter Augustus Egg. Friends and family still dominate his personal life, but for a few weeks long-past emotions are revived when he hears fromhis old love Maria Beadnell, now a middle-aged Mrs Winter., This volume contains more than 1200 letters, a third of them never before published, together with a substantial Addenda of over 280 letters from the years 1831 to 1852, which appeared since publication of the earlier volumes of the edition. The period covered by this volume is remarkable: Dickens continued to edit Household Words (in which Hard Times appeared), finished Bleak House and began Little Dorrit , as well as conducted readings for charity, involving himself in other dramatic social and charitable works, and traveled in Switzerland and Italy.
