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Charles Dickens

- A Life
Af: Claire Tomalin Engelsk Paperback

Charles Dickens

- A Life
Af: Claire Tomalin Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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.

From 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. If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading.

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

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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.

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.

From 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. If you loved Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading.

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

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 608
ISBN-13: 9780141036939
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0141036931
Udg. Dato: 21 jun 2012
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 142mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 21 jun 2012
Forfatter(e): Claire Tomalin
Forfatter(e) Claire Tomalin


Kategori Victoriatidens England


ISBN-13 9780141036939


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 608


Udgave


Længde 34mm


Bredde 142mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 21 jun 2012


Oplagsdato 21 jun 2012


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd