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The Letters of Charles Dickens - Volume 1
Charles Dickens
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My dear Kate,
I got down here last night (after a most intolerably wet journey) before seven, and found Thompson sitting by my fire. He had ordered dinner, and we ate it pleasantly enough, and went to bed in good time. This morning, Mr. Yates, the great man connected with the Institution (and a brother of Ashton Yates's), called. I went to look at it with him. It is an enormous place, and the tickets have been selling at two and even three guineas apiece. The lecture-room, in which the celebration is held, will accommodate over thirteen hundred people. It was being fitted with gas after the manner of the ring at Astley's. I should think it an easy place to speak in, being a semicircle with seats rising one above another to the ceiling, and will have eight hundred ladies to-night, in full dress. I am rayther shaky just now, but shall pull up, I have no doubt. At dinner-time to-morrow you will receive, I . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This book took me forever to read, even though most of the letters in it were fairly short. In my opinion much of the correspondence was boring, made more difficult by the fact that you only get one side of the conversation. Some of the letters were pointless – simply replying to an invitation witho
Always a joy to spend time with Dickens. In the letters you feel as if he's a friend, a bumptious, insecure, energetic, funny, force-of-nature friend. It's such a privilege to be able to spend time in his company.
While I love reading Dickens long form fiction, this book is mostly for Dickens nerds who want to know more personal details. He wrote letters as much as he wrote fiction, and though there are bits of fiction, etc, tossed about in letters, it was hard to slog through so many. I found the letters to
Review Title: The Sadness of The Inimitible
Jimmy Buffett wrote a song about finding "the heart of my story with the point of my pen." In this collection of 450 letters from the prolific pen of Dickens (the full multi-volume set of his letters collects over 14,000, after Dickens himself destroyed man