Dickens' London
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Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Few cities have ever been so intimately bound to a writer's imagination as London was to Charles Dickens, and Dickens' London presents a masterfully curated selection of his essays that resurrects the fog-laden streets, bustling markets, and teeming slums of Victorian England with breathtaking immediacy. Selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance, this collection draws together Dickens' most vivid journalistic and literary writings about the city he walked obsessively by night and day, capturing its criminal courts, its taverns, its river, and its poorhouses with the eye of both a social reformer and a supreme prose stylist. George Cruikshank's celebrated engravings accompany the text, their sharp, satirical lines perfectly mirroring Dickens' own unflinching gaze upon the inequalities and absurdities of metropolitan life. Published in 1966 by The Folio Society in one of its characteristically elegant limited editions, this volume stands as a testament to Dickens' enduring power as a chronicler of urban experience — a writer who understood that the city was not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing antagonist in the human drama. Vallance's authoritative introduction contextualises the essays within Dickens' broader literary career, illuminating the moral urgency that drove his pen. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly felt and smelled and sounded like to walk through Victorian London, this collection offers an answer that is at once historical document and literary revelation.
Author: Rosalind Vallance
Format: Hardback
Published: 2010, The Folio Society
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Few cities have ever been so intimately bound to a writer's imagination as London was to Charles Dickens, and Dickens' London presents a masterfully curated selection of his essays that resurrects the fog-laden streets, bustling markets, and teeming slums of Victorian England with breathtaking immediacy. Selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance, this collection draws together Dickens' most vivid journalistic and literary writings about the city he walked obsessively by night and day, capturing its criminal courts, its taverns, its river, and its poorhouses with the eye of both a social reformer and a supreme prose stylist. George Cruikshank's celebrated engravings accompany the text, their sharp, satirical lines perfectly mirroring Dickens' own unflinching gaze upon the inequalities and absurdities of metropolitan life. Published in 1966 by The Folio Society in one of its characteristically elegant limited editions, this volume stands as a testament to Dickens' enduring power as a chronicler of urban experience — a writer who understood that the city was not merely a backdrop but a living, breathing antagonist in the human drama. Vallance's authoritative introduction contextualises the essays within Dickens' broader literary career, illuminating the moral urgency that drove his pen. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly felt and smelled and sounded like to walk through Victorian London, this collection offers an answer that is at once historical document and literary revelation.