The Manuscript of Great Expectations: From the Townshend Collection, Wisbech

Author:   Charles Dickens
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date:   05 November 2015
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The Manuscript of Great Expectations: From the Townshend Collection, Wisbech


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The novels of Charles Dickens (1812–70), with their inimitable energy and their comic, tragic and grotesque characters, are still widely read, and reworked for film and television. Dickens himself had the original manuscripts of his works bound and presented them to his friends. That of Great Expectations was given to Chauncy Hare Townshend, with whom Dickens shared an interest in mesmerism and the occult. Townshend bequeathed his library (including the manuscript), together with collections of paintings and objects, to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum in 1868. The manuscript has been newly photographed and is here reproduced in colour and at actual size. The Cambridge Library Collection is also reissuing the serialised version of Great Expectations (1860–1) and the first book edition (1861, in three volumes). Dickens scholars and enthusiasts can now study the work-in-progress, with all its deletions and revisions, alongside the first two published versions.

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Author:   Charles Dickens
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9781139062510


ISBN 10:   1139062514
Publication Date:   05 November 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Manna for true Dickens afficionados and all who love exhibits of original literary manuscripts Library Journal


'... a pleasure to look at and certainly provides an authentic impression of the author's astonishing and truly 'inimitable' creative imagination.' Christa Jansohn, Editionen in der Kritik It is a wonderful privilege to be able to pore over ... Dickens' greatest and most compelling novel, to see his alterations and working notes, and to get as close as can be possible to following his mind as he wrote. Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life Manna for true Dickens afficionados and all who love exhibits of original literary manuscripts. Library Journal ... a pleasure to look at and certainly provides an authentic impression of the author's astonishing and truly 'inimitable' creative imagination. Christa Jansohn, Editionen in der Kritik


It is a wonderful privilege to be able to pore over ... Dickens' greatest and most compelling novel, to see his alterations and working notes, and to get as close as can be possible to following his mind as he wrote. - Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life Manna for true Dickens afficionados and all who love exhibits of original literary manuscripts - Library Journal


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