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Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
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. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times. From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer's craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens' own pen.Claire Tomalin is the author of eight bestselling biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2002. The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Hawthornden Prize are among her major honors.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594203091 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594203091 |
| Title | Charles Dickens |
| Author | Claire Tomalin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2011-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 527 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (Biography) 2011 |
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