Stella and Rose's Books Logo

Stella & Rose's Books

Specialists in Rare & Collectable Books

  Basket is empty
  Login Register

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 3

by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater

Published by J.M. Dent. 1st. 1999

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Volume 3: 'Gone Astray' and Other Papers from Household Words 1851-59. Edited by Michael Slater. Containing works never before collected together. Gone Astray picks up where The Amusements of the People leaves off, after the 1st 18 months of Dicken's contributions to HouseholdWords. Annotated. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxi and 542 pages including index.

Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Cream dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

ISBN: 0460877267
Stock no. 1831184

Enquire about this book Add to Wish List

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Textual Note
  • Abbreviations
  • Select Bibliography
  • Dickens's Life and Times 1851-9
  • Illustrations
  • 'GONE ASTRAY' AND OTHER PAPERS
  • 1. A Narrative of Extraordinary Suffering
  • 2. Our Watering Place
  • 3. Whole Hogs
  • 4. A Flight
  • 5. Our School
  • 6. Sucking Pigs
  • 7. A Sleep to Startle Us
  • 8. Chips: The Fine Arts in Australia
  • 9. Betting-Shops
  • 10. Our Honourable Friend
  • 11. Our Vestry
  • 12. Our Bore
  • 13. Lying Awake
  • 14. Trading in Death
  • 15. Where We Stopped Growing
  • 16. Down with the Tide
  • 17. Proposals for Amusing Posterity
  • 18. Home for Homeless Women
  • 19. The Noble Savage
  • 20. A Haunted House
  • 21. Gone Astray
  • 22. Frauds on the Fairies
  • 23. Things That Cannot Be Done
  • 24. The Long Voyage
  • 25. Fire and Snow
  • 26. On Strike
  • 27. It Is Not Generally Known
  • 28. Legal and Equitable Jokes
  • 29. To Working Men
  • 30. Our French Watering-Place
  • 31. An Unsettled Neighbourhood
  • 32. Mr Bull's Somnambulist
  • 33. The Lost Arctic Voyagers
  • 34. That Other Public
  • 35. Gaslight Fairies
  • 36. Gone to the Dogs
  • 37. The Thousand and One Humbugs
  • 38. The Toady Tree
  • 39. Cheap Patriotism
  • 40. The Great Baby
  • 41. Our Commission
  • 42. Out of Town
  • 43. A Slight Depreciation of the Currency
  • 44. Insularities
  • 45. A Nightly Scene in London
  • 46. The Friend of the Lions
  • 47. Why?
  • 48. Proposals for a National Jest-Book
  • 49. Railway Dreaming
  • 50. The Demeanour of Murderers
  • 51. Out of the Season
  • 52. Nobody, Somebody and Everybody
  • 53. The Murdered Person
  • 54. Murderous Extremes
  • 55. The Best Authority
  • 56. Curious Misprint in the Edinburgh Review
  • 57. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Chapter the First
  • 58. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Chapter the Second
  • 59. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Chapter the Third
  • 60. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Chapter the Fourth
  • 61. The Last Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. Chapter the Fifth
  • 62. Well-Authenticated Rappings
  • 63. Please to Leave Your Umbrella
  • 64. Personal
  • 65. New Year's Day
  • Appendices
  • Index and Glossary

Similar Stock