The Life of Charles DickensCambridge University Press, 15 dic 2011 - 576 pagine John Forster (1812-76), an exact contemporary of Charles Dickens, was one of his closest friends, and acted for him (as for many other authors) as advisor, editor, proofreader, agent and marketing manager: according to Thackeray, 'whenever anyone is in a scrape we all fly to him for refuge. He is omniscient and works miracles.' Forster was Dickens' literary executor, and was left the manuscripts of many of the novels, which he in turn left (along with the rest of his magnificent library) to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum). He was ideally placed to write a biography of Dickens, having known him since the 1830s, and having been involved in deeply private matters such as Dickens' separation from his wife. This three-volume account was first published between 1872 and 1874; the version of Volume 3 reissued here is the first edition. |
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At Regniers | 58 |
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Viardot in Orphée | 115 |
Zouaves and their | 122 |
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An American critic | 326 |
Masterly drawing of character | 332 |
18641867 | 344 |
1868 | 372 |
At Philadelphia | 378 |
Objections to coloured people | 385 |
Incident before a reading | 391 |
Sherry to slop round with | 397 |
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Wattss Rochester charity | 165 |
Circumlocution Office | 171 |
Douglas Jerrolds death | 180 |
Visits of friends | 190 |
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Writing or Reading? | 201 |
Various managements | 226 |
A plea for objectors | 239 |
Home arguments | 242 |
HINTS FOR BOOKS WRITTEN AND | 277 |
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Characters of women | 289 |
Hallucinative imagination | 302 |
Fielding and Dickens | 314 |
A word for fanciful descriptions | 320 |
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Last page of Drood in facsimile | 430 |
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Street walks and London haunts | 476 |
Letter to youngest | 482 |
APPENDIX | 505 |
Editorship of his weekly serials | 510 |
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