Dickensiana Volume I

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In tribute to the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, Delphi Classics is pleased to introduce Dickensiana, a first of its kind e-compilation of period accounts of Dickens’ life and works, rare 19th and early 20th century books and articles about Dickens and Dickensian locales, reminiscences by family, friends and colleagues, tribute poems, parodies, satires and sequels based on his works and much more, spiced with an abundance of vintage images. (Version 1)

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Features:

* 14 Dickensian books – immerse yourself in the world of literature’s greatest novelist!

* a comprehensive short prose works section, with rare articles and extracts on all things Dickens

* a range of Dickensian poems inspired by the writings of the great man

* a SPECIAL Dickensiana image section, featuring rare vintage postcards in beautiful colour

* a Dickensian’s treasure trove of scholarly texts and intriguing images

Contents:

The Books

CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS FRIENDS BY W. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE

THE PUZZLE OF DICKENS’S LAST PLOT BY ANDREW LANG

IN JAIL WITH CHARLES DICKENS BY ALFRED TRUMBLE

MY FATHER AS I RECALL HIM BY MAMIE DICKENS

DICKENS-LAND BY J.A. NICKLIN

PICKWICKIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS BY PERCY FITZGERALD

CHRISTMAS EVE WITH THE SPIRITS

THE PROBLEM OF EDWIN DROOD BY W. ROBERTSON NICOLL

MICAWBER REDIVIVUS BY JONATHAN COALFIELD

PICKWICKIAN STUDIES BY PERCY FITZGERALD

PHIZ AND DICKENS, AS THEY APPEARED TO EDGAR BROWNE

A WEEK’S TRAMP IN DICKENS-LAND BY WILLIAM R. HUGHES

CHARLES DICKENS AS A READER BY CHARLES KENT

THE INNS AND TAVERNS OF ‘PICKWICK’ BY B.W. MATZ

The Shorter Prose

A LITERARY HIGHWAY

EXTRACT FROM ‘A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE’

A CHILD’S JOURNEY WITH DICKENS

CHARLES DICKENS AND ROCHESTER

A WALK WITH AN IMMORTAL

NEW CHAPTERS FROM ‘THE LIFE OF DICKENS’

NEW FACTS ABOUT THE REAL CHARLES DICKENS

MEN AND MEMORIES: PERSONAL REMINISCENCES

CHARLES DICKENS AS I KNEW HIM

DICKENS IN AMERICA

EXTRACT FROM ‘PEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DICKENS’S READINGS, TAKEN FROM LIFE’

PORTRAITS AND MEMOIRS

HARD TIMES (REFINISHED)

UNDER THE SHADOW OF BLEAK HOUSE

THE WOODEN MIDSHIPMAN

MISS BETSEY TROTWOOD’S

DISAPPEARING DICKENSLAND

ROUND ABOUT DOTHEBOY’S HALL

THACKERAY AND DICKENS

MEMORIES OF CHARLES DICKENS

DICKENS’S CHARACTERS AND THEIR PROTOTYPES

THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHARLES DICKENS AND WASHINGTON IRVING

CHARLES DICKENS’S RELIGION

CHARLES DICKENS IN ILLINOIS

PICKWICKIAN BATH

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY AT HIND HEAD

LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: THE COUNTRY OF DICKENS

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

THE FINAL STAVE OF ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’

“PHIZ” A MEMOIR

THE CITY OF EDWIN DROOD

‘BOZ’ AND BOULOGNE

DICKENS AND GRAVESEND

DICKENS IN SWITZERLAND

CHARLES DICKENS’ MANUSCRIPTS

DICKENS

THE SHADOW ON DICKENS’S LIFE

EXTRACT FROM ‘CROWDING MEMORIES’

EXTRACT FROM ‘OLD FRIENDS. BEING LITERARY RECOLLECTIONS OF OTHER DAYS’

The Poetry

LIST OF POEMS

Dickensiana Images

DICKENS’S CHILDREN

DICKENS POSTCARDS