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BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DICKENS: CHAPTER VIII.
Journey through France; Genoa; the Italy of 1844; Dickens
charmed with its untidy picturesqueness; he is idle for a
few weeks; his palace at Genoa; he sets to work upon "The
Chimes"; gets passionately interested in the little book;
travels through Italy to read it to his friends in London;
reads it on December 2, 1844; is soon back again in Italy;
returns to London in the summer of 1845; on January 21,
1846, starts The Daily News; holds the post of editor three
weeks; "Pictures from Italy" first published in Daily News 93
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