Dickens was as celebrated a speaker as he was a writer, and this collection gathers his public addresses from the Edinburgh dinner of 1841 onward. He speaks in New York during his first American visit, at the Manchester Athenaeum, to mechanics’ institutes in Liverpool and Birmingham, to gardeners and to the newsvendors, with an introductory account of his life.
Dickens in his own voice on literacy, charity and the writer’s place in public life. Download the free EPUB.