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Thirty six out of forty parts have now been published. Part 36 is being published with Part 35 - a week early so no cheating! - and Part 37 will be published on Monday 2 August. A PDF of the texts and a PDF of images of the original periodical pages are both now available here. Hear more on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 (and read more here), Front Row on BBC Radio 4, or The Strand on BBC World Service. You can also read the introductions to each part sent out with the weekly email. There is some background material here which now includes the illustrations from the 1875 Piccadilly edition.
"Is that the road to London?" she said.The story first appeared as a serial in Charles Dickens's periodical All The Year Round beginning with the issue dated Saturday 26 November 1859 and ending with the issue dated Saturday 25 August 1860.
In fact parts were published on the Wednesday before their date. We are publishing the parts week by week 150 years after their original publication on the same calendar date. The first part was available on Monday 23 November 2009 and the last will be on Sunday 22 August 2010, in the morning UK time. (The day changes from 7 March because of the Leap Year in 1860)
The parts are e-texted with all faults exactly as printed. A note of known errors is also published here.
The original tightly packed format is not reproduced in the web version. But a separate pdf is also published each week which captures the feel of the original in a more readable form. It can be read on-screen or printed out. Or you can subscribe free to receive it week by week in your in-box by emailing paul@paullewis.co.uk. And there is a pdf of images of the original pages with a link each week above.
There is also an e-text and PDFs of 'The Ghost in the Cupboard Room', Wilkie's contribution to the Christmas number of All The Year Round which was written while he was writing The Woman in White.
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