If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading. Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for. 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. 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. /rebates/2f97815942030912fCharles-Dickens-Life-Tomalin-Claire-15942030912fplp&. Buy a cheap copy of Charles Dickens: A Life book by Claire Tomalin.
When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. 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.Īt the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents.įrom these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. As Claire Tomalin demonstrates in her vivid and moving new biography, Dickens’s own life was rich in the attributes we call Dickensian shameless melodrama, gargantuan appetites.
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