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This ninth volume of the Letters of Charles Dickens presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. These letters document the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, "A Haunted House", "A Message from the Sea", and "Tom Tiddler's Ground"; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words. Dickens also shows his delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill.
This ninth volume presents about 1,100 letters, many unpublished, from the years 1859 to 1861. It records the writing of two major novels, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations; the planning and writing of a substantial amount of the three Christmas numbers of this period, "A Haunted House", "A Message from the Sea", and "Tom Tiddler's Ground"; and the establishment of All the Year Round as a new journal to succeed Household Words. It also shows Dickens's delight with his new Kentish home, Gad's Hill.
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