Dickens' Working Notes for His Novels

by Charles Dickens

This volume collects for the first time all of Charles Dickens' extant plans and notes for his novels. Dickens wrote his novels in segments during the course of serial publication. Beginning with Dombey and Son, the sixth novel, he wrote out plans for each segment as he went along, sketching future developments, querying himself about options, noting motifs, establishing recurrent images, working out chronologies, experimenting with names,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226145905
• ISBN13: 9780226145907
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 5.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 12.0" x 12.0"