Charles Dickens: A Life

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.

Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780143122050
ISBN10: 0143122053
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- History | Modern | 19th Century
- Literary Collections | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author
CLAIRE TOMALIN worked in publishing and journalism for many years. She was literary editor first of the New Statesman and then the Sunday Times, before devoting herself to writing full time. She is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies including Thomas Hardy, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which was the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. She lives in England with her husband, Michael Frayn.