Dickens biography claire tomalin6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Dickens lives and breathes in these pages. She has captured Dickens, in sun and shadow, with all the full-hearted exuberance, generosity and keen wit that he merits' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Written with immense knowledge and literary poise, it presents a portrait of the novelist unrivalled in its complex humanity. 'Cracks along like a postillion powered by lightning and is by far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Thanks to the panache of its narrative and the bite of its insight, Tomalin's biography strips the cobwebs and the kitsch from the spellbinder. Charles Dickens- A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve. 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 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. ![]()
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