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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... Where is the voice whose faintest tone awakes to light The utter darkness of my sonl with visions bright? Where is the face on which to gaze in silent joy Was raptnre, bliss unspeakable, without alloy? I look around the lonely room--no face i3 there To soothe with one sweet look of love my heart of care. I ask, in vain, for one kind word--no kindred tone Comes back upon my yearning ear: --I Am Alose! Yet still thy gentle image lives where nought can soil Its spirit-bea...
This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.
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