![]() ![]() 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. Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. ![]() ![]() From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. ![]() 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. The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. ![]()
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