Charles Dickens by 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. This title paints a portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius. It offers an examination of Dickens we deserve.
With Claire Tomalin as our guide, the life of Charles Dickens, 200 years after his birth, reads as newly minted as one of his novels * Sunday Express *
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. The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. Claire Tomalin is married to the writer Michael Frayn.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670917679 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670917672 |
| Title | Charles Dickens |
| Author | Claire Tomalin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Prizes | Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: Telegraph Biography of the Year 2011, Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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