Miscellaneous Papers

This volume collects a large selection of Dickens's occasional writing, some of it written for volumes or as one-off contributions to periodicals, but mostly for The Examiner and the two periodicals he edited himself. These short pieces, including journalistic comment, fictional satire, book and theatre reviews, and other less generically idenitifiable writings, present Dickens's views and concerns in a direct and vigorous way, giving insights often only hinted at in his novels.