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THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 4

by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater; John Drew

Published by J.M. Dent. 1st. 2000

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Volume 4: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers 1859-70. Edited by Michael Slater and John Drew. This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiii and 476 pages including index.

Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Couple of minor 'dints' to prelims else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, base of spine has a tear, no loss.

ISBN: 0460877283
Stock no. 1831176

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the Text and Illustrations
  • Select Bibliography
  • Dicken's Life and Times 1859-70
  • Illustrations
  • THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER AND OTHER PAPERS
  • 1. The Poor Man and His Beer
  • 2. Five New Points of Criminal Law
  • 3. Leigh Hunt. A Remonstrance
  • 4. The Tattlesnivel Bleater
  • 5. The Uncommercial Traveller: His General Line of Business/The Shipwreck
  • 6. The Uncommercial Traveller: Wapping Workhouse
  • 7. The Uncommercial Traveller: Two Views of a Cheap Theatre
  • 8. The Uncommercial Traveller: Poor Mercantile Jack
  • 9. The Uncommercial Traveller: Refreshments for Travellers
  • 10. The Uncommercial Traveller: Travelling Abroad
  • 11. The Uncommercial Traveller: The Great Tasminia's Cargo
  • 12. The Uncommercial Traveller: City of London Churches
  • 13. The Uncommercial Traveller: Shy Neighbourhoods
  • 14. The Uncommercial Traveller: Tramps
  • 15. The Uncommercial Traveller: Dullborough Town
  • 16. The Uncommercial Traveller: Night Walks
  • 17. The Uncommercial Traveller: Chambers
  • 18. The Uncommercial Traveller: Nurse's Stories
  • 19. The Uncommercial Traveller: Arcadian London
  • 20. The Uncommercial Traveller: The Italian Prisoner
  • 21. An Enlightened Clergyman
  • 22. Rather a Strong Does
  • 23. The Uncommercial Traveller: The Calais Night Mail
  • 24. The Uncommercial Traveller: Some Recollections of Mortality
  • 25. The Uncommercial Traveller: Birthday Celebrations
  • 26. The Uncommercial Traveller: The Short-Timers
  • 27. The Uncommercial Traveller: Bound for the Great Salt Lake
  • 28. The Uncommercial Traveller: The City of the Absent
  • 29. The Uncommercial Traveller: An Old Stage-Coaching House
  • 30. The Uncommercial Traveller: The Boiled Beef of New England
  • 31. The Uncommercial Traveller: Chatham Dockyard
  • 32. The Uncommercial Traveller: In the French-Flemish Country
  • 33. The Uncommercial Traveller: Medicine Men of Civilisation
  • 34. The Uncommercial Traveller: Titbull's Alms Houses
  • 35. In Memoriam: W.M. Thackeray
  • 36. The Late Mr Stanfield
  • 37. The Ruffian: By The Uncommercial Traveller
  • 38. New Uncommercial Samples: Aboard Ship
  • 39. New Uncommercial Samples: A Small Star in the East
  • 40. New Uncommercial Samples A Little Dinner in an Hour
  • 41. New Uncommercial Samples Mr Barlow
  • 42. New Uncommercial Samples On an Amateur Beat
  • 43. New Uncommercial Samples A Fly-Leaf in a Life
  • 44. New Uncommercial Samples A Plea for Total Abstinence
  • 45. Landor's Life
  • 46. On Mr Fechter's Acting
  • Appendices
  • Index and Glossary

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