Charles Dickens: A Life

by Claire Tomalin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143122053
• ISBN13: 9780143122050
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher