His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Published by Headline Book Publishing, 1989 ISBN: 0747279977 illustrations 21.6 x 22.3 centimetres (0.68 kg)Ĭharles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. Paperback, back cover sun faded, inside very clean and bright, no inscriptions, minor shelf/edge wear, 190 pages Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life: although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should upset his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow author Wilkie Collins, and, for the last 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress.Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision by Peter Ackroyd He was a man of mercurial character, had enormous vitality and humour, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose love life was as complicated (and unconventional) as any modern writer's.
This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990.
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