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Charles Dickens

A Life

Author: Claire Tomalin  

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'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius.

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'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius.

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'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New StatesmanCharles 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 many more.Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys, paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens- A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve.

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About the Author

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, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen- A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys- The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens- A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
21st June 2012
Pages
608
ISBN
9780141036939

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