![]() If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading. The tumultuous life of Englands greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by unparalleled literary biographer Claire Tomalin. Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. 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.įrom 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. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire TomalinĬharles 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.Īt the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. ![]()
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