Added to your basket:
Mäster Humphreys Klocka … Förra [–Sednare] Delen.

Checkout now

First edition in Swedish, rare, of Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840-1), comprising the framing narrative of short stories, followed by The Old Curiosity Shop (‘Den Gamla Antiqvitets-boden’). Barnaby Rudge, omitted here, was published separately in 1845.

Mäster Humphreys Klocka appeared as issues 10-20 of Hjerta’s ‘New Reading Library’ for 1842-3, other contributions coming from Bulwer Lytton, Merimée, Marryat, etc.

Though his reputation in Scandinavia was less strong than in other parts of Europe and Russia, translations were quick to appear in Swedish: Sketches by Boz in 1840, and Nicholas Nickelby earlier in 1842. Strindberg read Dickens in translation as a youth, and Dickens directly influenced his Red Room (Röda Rummet).

OCLC and COPAC together show BL and Bodley only.

You may also be interested in...

GODWIN, William.

Fleetwood: or, the new Man of Feeling … In three Volumes …

First edition of Godwin’s third novel, like Caleb Williams a psychological and philosophical tale intended in some measure as a criticism of Rousseau. Casimir Fleetwood announces at the outset: ‘The proper topic of the narrative I am writing is the record of my errors. To write it, is the act of my penitence and humiliation’ (chapter two).

Read more

IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS THACKERAY, William Makepeace. 

The Virginians, a tale of the last century. 

First edition in the original monthly parts of Thackeray’s American sequel to Henry Esmond. 

Read more