Charles Dickens: His Life and Times - A Pictorial Biography of the World's Greatest Storyteller (Paperback)

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. This pictorial history will shed a new and alternative light on this literary giant.

General

Imprint:	Fonthill Media
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	February 2014
Authors:	Phil Carradice
Dimensions:	236 x 165 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-78155-278-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Biography > Literary Promotions
LSN:	1-78155-278-9
Barcode:	9781781552780

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