John Forster's original three-volume text is abridged and brought to life with the addition of illuminating extracts from Dickens' own work and from recent criticism, biography and fiction.
512 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
Target Audience Note:
Adult
Notes:
"This is an abridged version of the original The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster."--Title page verso Includes index
Contents:
1812-1822. Childhood 1822-1824. Hard experiences in boyhood 1824-1830. School days and start in life 1831-1935. Reporters' gallery and newspaper literature 1836. First book, and Origin of Pickwick 1837. Writing the Pickwick papers 1837-1838. Between Pick and Nickleby 1838. Oliver Twist 1838-1839. Nicholas Nickleby 1838-1839. During and after Nickleby 1839. New literary project 1840-1841. The Old curiosity shop 1840. Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs 1841. Barnaby Rudge 1841. Public dinner in Edinburgh 1841. Adventures in the Highlands 1841. Again at Broadstairs 1841. Eve of the visit to America 1842. First Impressions of America 1842. Second impressions of America 1842. Philadelphia, Washington, and the south 1842. Canal-boat journeys: bound for the west 1842. The far west: to Niagara Falls 1842. Niagara and Montreal 1842. American notes 1843. First year of Martin Chuzzlewit 1843-1844. Chuzzlewit disappointments and Christmas Carol 1844. Year of departure for Italy 1844. Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello 1844. Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere 1844. Italian travel 1845. Last months in Italy 1845-1846. Again in England 1846. A home in Switzerland 1846. Swiss people and scenery 1846. Sketches chiefly personal 1846. Literary labour at Lausanne 1846. Revolution at Geneva, Christmas book and last days in Switzerland 1846-1847. Three months in Paris 1846-1848. Dombey and son 1847-1852. Splendid strolling 1848-1851. Seaside holidays 1848-1850. Haunted man and household words 1848-1851. Last year in Devonshire Terrace 1850-1853. David Copperfield and Bleak House 1853-1855. Home incidents and Hard Times 1853. Switzerland and Italy revisited 1853, 1854-and 1856. Three summers a Boulogne 1855-1856. Residence in Paris 1855-1857. Little Dorrit, and a lazy tour 1857-1858. What happened at this time 1856-1870. Gadshill Place 1858-1859. First paid readings 1859-1861. All the year round and the uncommercial traveller 1861-1863. Second series of readings 1855-1865. Hints for books written and unwritten 1864-1867. Third series of readings 1836-1870. Dickens as a novelist 1867. America revisited: November and December, 1867 1868. American revisited: January to April, 1868 1868-1870. Last readings 1869-1870. Last book 1836-1870. Personal Characteristics 1869-1870. The end
