This revelatory and often startling book is the most unusual insiderstory about book publishing ever issued. It pivots on the enormous changes in publishing its culture and politics over four tumultuous decades since the 1970s. The book does so in providing a detailed blowbyblow account of the authors struggles over the eventual publication of his classic and magisterial work Charles Dickens and His Publishers. This was originally issued in 1978 and reissued in a second revised edition by