Charles Dickens

Grahame Smith

first published 1996 St. Martin's Press, 1996 190 pages

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Dickens's literary genius has traditionally been regarded as a creative impulse developed in private. Taking a fresh approach, Grahame Smith draws on a wealth of material to reveal how Dickens's potential as a writer was realised through a highly practical process of literary production. Through analysis of Dickens's struggles with publishers and his response to the expectations of his vast readership and the demand...

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Charles Dickens paperback · 2003 · St. Martin's Press · 190 pages
Charles Dickens edition · 1996 · Palgrave Macmillan · 9781349244898
Charles Dickens edition · 1996 · St. Martin's Press · 190 pages
Charles Dickens edition · 1996 · Macmillan · 190 pages

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