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'All who love Dickens have a strange sense that he is really inexhaustible.' That was G.K. Cheaterton's impression of Dicken's mature journalism and it still holds true. Dickens was always on the move. in his imagination and in the mile upon mile of noctural walks he made around London. He travelled, either literally or figuratively, to prisons, theaters, slums, the Inns of Court, on journeys to the Continent and back to his childhood in Kent and London. For this volume David Pascoe has selected from the pieces Dickens wrote after he founded Household Words in 1850 until his death in 1870. It contains 'Night Walks', 'On Strike' and 'New Year's Day' which are among Dicken's most remarkable pieces. His aim was to catch the imagination of a public beseiged, as we are now, by hack journalism. He does so by concentrating and writing 'for the time being, as if there were nothing else to be done in the world - the only likely way I know of, of doing anything'.
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