The Life Of Charles Dickens 1852 1870 PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In March 1852 the first number appeared, and its sale was mentioned in the same letter from Tavistock House (7th of March) which told of his troubles in the story at its outset, and of other anxieties incident to the common lot and inseparable equally from its joys and sorrows, through which his life was passing at the time. My Highgate journey yesterday was a sad one. Sad to think how all journeys tend that way. I went up to the cemetery to look for a piece of ground. In no hope of a Government bill, f and in a foolish dislik to leaving the little child shut up in a vault there, I think of pitching a tent under the sky. . . . Nothing has taken place here: but I believe, every hour, that it must next hour. Wild ideas are upon me of going to Paris?Rouen?Switzerland?somewhere? and writing the remaining two-thirds of the next No. aloft in some queer inn room. I have been hanging over it, and have got restless. Want a change I think.Stupid. We were at 30,000 when I last heard. . . I am sorry to say that after all kinds of evasions, I am I subjoin the dozen titles successively proposed for Bleah House. I. Tom-all-Alone's. The Ruined House; 2. Tom-all-Alone's. The Solitary House that was always shut up; 3. Bleak House Academy; 4. The East Wind; 5. Tom-all-Alone's. The Ruined House, Building, Factory, Mill] that got into Chancery and never got out; 6. Tcrm-all-Alone's. The Solitary House where the Grass grew; 7. Tom-all-Alone's. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted: 8. Tom-all-Alone's. The Ruined Mill, that got into Chancery and never got out; 9. Tom-all- Alone's. The Solitary House where the Wind howled; 10. Tom- all-Alone's. The Ruined House that got into Chancery and never got out; 11. Bleak House and the East Wind. How they both ...