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The Life of Charles Dickens

by John Forster

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  1. 1The Life of Charles Dickens
  2. 2Note to the Present Edition
  3. 3Table of Contents
  4. 4The Life of Charles Dickens
  5. 5Chapter II — Hard Experiences in Boyhood
  6. 6Chapter III — School-Days and Start in Life
  7. 7Chapter IV — Reporters’ Gallery and Newspaper Literature
  8. 8Chapter V — 1836. First Book, and Origin of Pickwick
  9. 9Chapter VI — 1837. Writing the Pickwick Papers
  10. 10Chapter VII — Between Pickwick and Nickleby
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Oliver Twist
  12. 12Chapter IX — Nicholas Nickleby
  13. 13Chapter X — During and After Nickleby
  14. 14Chapter XI — New Literary Project
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Old Curiosity Shop
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs
  17. 17Chapter XIV — 1841. Barnaby Rudge
  18. 18Chapter XV — 1841. Public Dinner in Edinburgh
  19. 19Chapter XVI — 1841. Adventures in the Highlands
  20. 20Chapter XVII — 1841. Again at Broadstairs
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — 1841. Eve of the Visit to America
  22. 22Chapter XIX — 1842. First Impressions of America
  23. 23Chapter XX — Second Impressions of America
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Philadelphia, Washington, and the South
  25. 25Chapter XXII — 1842. Canal-Boat Journeys: Bound Far West
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — 1842. The Far West: To Niagara Falls
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — Niagara and Montreal
  28. 28The Life of Charles Dickens — Vol. I. 1842-1852
  29. 29Table of Contents
  30. 30The Life of Charles Dickens
  31. 31Chapter II — 1843. First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit
  32. 32Chapter III — Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol
  33. 33Chapter IV — Year of Departure for Italy
  34. 34Chapter V — Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello
  35. 35Chapter VI — Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere
  36. 36Chapter VII — Italian Travel
  37. 37Chapter VIII — Last Months in Italy
  38. 38Chapter IX — Again in England. 1845-1846
  39. 39Chapter X — A Home in Switzerland
  40. 40Chapter XI — Swiss People and Scenery
  41. 41Chapter XII — Sketches Chiefly Personal
  42. 42Chapter XIII — 1846. Literary Labour at Lausanne
  43. 43Chapter XIV — 1846. Revolution at Geneva, Christmas Book, and Last…
  44. 44Chapter XV — Three Months in Paris
  45. 45The Life of Charles Dickens · John Forster — Three Volumes in Two —…
  46. 46Chapter XVII — Splendid Strolling
  47. 47Chapter XVIII — Seaside Holidays
  48. 48Chapter XIX — Haunted Man and Household Words
  49. 49Chapter XX — Last Years in Devonshire Terrace
  50. 50The Life of Charles Dickens — Vol. III. 1852-1870
  51. 51The Life of Charles Dickens
  52. 52Chapter II — Home Incidents and Hard Times
  53. 53Chapter III — Switzerland and Italy Revisited
  54. 54Chapter IV — Three Summers at Boulogne
  55. 55Chapter V — Residence in Paris
  56. 56Chapter VI — Little Dorrit, and a Lazy Tour
  57. 57Chapter VII — What Happened at This Time
  58. 58Chapter VIII — Gadshill Place
  59. 59Chapter IX — First Paid Readings
  60. 60Chapter X — All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller
  61. 61Chapter XI — Second Series of Readings
  62. 62Chapter XII — Hints for Books Written and Unwritten
  63. 63Chapter XIII — Third Series of Readings
  64. 64Chapter XIV — Dickens as a Novelist
  65. 65Chapter XV — America Revisited: November and December 1867
  66. 66Chapter XVI — America Revisited: January to April 1868
  67. 67Chapter XVII — Last Readings
  68. 68Chapter XVIII — Last Book
  69. 69Chapter XIX — Personal Characteristics
  70. 70Chapter XX — The End
  71. 71Appendix
  72. 72II — Barnaby Rudge (1841)
  73. 73II — The Will of Charles Dickens
  74. 74III — Corrections Made in the Later Editions of the Second Volume

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