Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by
bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon:
a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a
tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social
causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of
characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the
Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell,
Lady Dedlock, and many more. At the age of twelve he was sent to
work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless
parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all
the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts.
When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his
wishes - in Westminster Abbey.Yet the brilliance concealed a
divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental
about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a
young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious
children. From the award-winning author of Samuel Pepys, Charles
Dickens: A Life paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens,
capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.
If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas
Carol, this book is invaluable reading. 'By far the most humane and
imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader'
Amanda Craig, New Statesman
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