Reprinted Pieces

Complete and unabridged, with 30 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Everett Millais and John Atkinson Grimshaw. Sketches, essays and half-fictions Dickens wrote for his own magazine and gathered afterwards: a walk through a London workhouse, a bill-sticker, a Christmas tree, the police at work, a schoolroom and a ghost story that is not one. The pieces were written to fill a weekly and...