Dimensions
120 x 120 x 16mm
Tales of misplaced pomp, murder, obsession and spiritual ruin.
Dickens's love of story-telling made him as inventive with form as with his imagined characters. In the stories collected here, his genius ranges from the farcical misadventures of a vainglorious Mayer in 'Mr Tulrumble' to historical romances told around Master Humphrey's fireside, where Mr Pickwick, accompanied by the Wellers, appears as a narrator. Dickens, alert to all that was going on around him, used his interest in mesmerism in 'To Be Read At Dusk', a powerful tale of psychological domination. 'Hunted Down' draws on melodrama in a story of a lover's revenge, set in the world of lawyers and the Inns of Court. 'George Silverman's Explanation' is a masterpiece of Dickens's late style.
This selection of Dickens's shorter fiction which covers his creative life from 1837 to the last work completed before his death in 1870 has been brought together for the first time.
This is the only edition available, with original illustrations, introduction, notes, and chronology of Dickens's life and times.
