Charles Dickens
A Life
$34.29
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2012
Summary
‘By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader’ - Amanda Craig, New Statesman
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically 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 ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141036939 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141036931 |
| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 484g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award. She has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies, including:
- Jane Austen: A Life
- The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens’ relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002
- Charles Dickens: A Life, a full-scale biography of Dickens
She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.
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