Name: THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 2
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THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 2

by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater

Published by J.M. Dent. 1st thus. 1996

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Volume 2: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers: Reports, Essays and Reviews 1834-51. Edited by Michael Slater. Slater reprints some of Dickens' best journalism from the period, including well-known pieces like "Pet Prisoners," "Old Lamps for New Ones," and "On Duty with Inspector Field," along with unfamiliar gems such as "Snoring for the Million" and "Demoralisation and Total Abstinence." Annotated. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxviii and 408 pages including index.

Slight bump to top of spine. Boards clean. A few minor foxspots to text block and top edge of text block a bit grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

ISBN: 0460877275
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Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Note on the Provenance, Selection and Treatment of the Texts
Abbreviations
Select Bibliography
Dicken's Life and Times 1934-51
Illustrations
'THE AMUSEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE' AND OTHER PAPERS
1. Report from Edinburgh on Preparations for the Grey Festival
2. Report of the Edinburgh Dinner to Lord Grey
3. Theatre Review: The Christening
4. 'The Story without a Beginning'. (Translated from the German by Boz)
5. Report on the Tory Victory at Colchester
6. Grand Colosseum Fete
7. The Reopening of the Colosseum
8. Theatre Review: The Dream at Sea
9. Report on the Fire at Hatfield House
10. Report on the Northamptonshire Election
11. Theatre Review: Pierre Bertrand
12. Review: Refutation of the Misstatements... in Mr Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott...
13. Review: Hood's Comic Annual for 1839
14. 'Theatrical Examiner'
15. Review: A Letter to Lord Ashley, MP, on the Mines and Collieries Bill
16. Snoring for the Million
17. Theatre Review: Macready as Benedick
18. Report on the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Persons Variously Engaged in the University of Oxford
19. The Agricultural Interest
20. Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an Ancient Gentleman. By Favor of Charles Dickens
21. The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall
22. Review: The Night Side of Nature, or Ghosts and Ghost Seers
23. Ignorance and Crime
24. Ignorance Its Victims
25. The Chinese Junk
26. Review: The Drunkard's Children. A Sequel to the Bottle
27. Review: Narrative of the Expedition. to the River Niger in 1841
28. 'A Truly British Judge'
29. Review: The Poetry of Science
30. The American Panorama
31. Judicial Special Pleading
32. Review: The Rising Generation
33. The Paradise at Tooting
34. Theatre Review: Virginia and Black-eyed Susan
35. Demoralisation and Total Abstinence
36. Theatre Review: Macready as King Lear
37. Court Ceremonies
38. A Preliminary Word
39. The Amusements of the People (I)
40. A Child's Dream of a Star
41. Perfect Felicity in a Bird's Eye View
42. The Amusements of the People (II)
43. Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
44. Pet Prisoners
45. The Begging-Letter Writer
46. A Walk in a Workhouse
47. Old Lamps for New Ones
48. The Sunday Screw
49. The Ghost of Art
50. A Detective Police Party (I)
51. A Detective Police Party (II)
52. Chips: The Individuality of Locomotives
53. A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent
54. Lively Turtle
55. A Crisis in the Affairs of Mr John Bull, as related by Mrs Bull to the Children
56. A December Vision
57. The Last Words of the Old Year
58. Railway Strikes
59. 'Births: Mrs Meeks, of a Son'
60. A Monument of French Folly
61. Bill-Sticking
62. The Finishing Schoolmaster
63. On Duty with Inspector Field
Appendices
Index and Glossary