Author: John Forster
Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062954962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A “marvelous exploration” of Dickens’s life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens’s creative genius and enduring popularity. As we follow his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his own experience—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth-century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. Illustrated with 30 black-and-white images “Dazzling.” —BookPage “Wilson has a number of persuasive ideas about Dickens, whom he sees as not only a conflicted personality but a tragic one, despite his genius for comedy.” —The New York Times Book Review “Divulge[s] fascinating contradictions in a man whose work has entertained more generations than any writer could ever dream of.” —Los Angeles Times

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: John Forster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108039359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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A three-volume biography of Dickens, published in 1872-4 by one of his closest friends and advisors.

Author: John Forster
Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Author: John Forster
Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Eleanor Wachtel
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 9780394227382
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: John Forster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646794119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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"...Dickens was moved or inspired by the rough lessons of his boyhood, and the groundwork of the character was undoubtedly laid; but the rhetorical exuberance impressed itself upon him later, and from this as it expanded and developed in a thousand amusing ways, the full-length figure took its great charm." -John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, Volume I (1872) The Life of Charles Dickens Two Volumes in One (1872) focuses on the English author's life from 1812-1851. Written by Dickens' close friend and advisor John Forster, the biography provides intimate details on the development of some of the greatest fictional characters in literary history, such as David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, as well as insights into Dickens' personal life. Volume II documents his worldwide travels, including extended time spent in Paris, Italy, and Switzerland. This biography of the classic novelist is a must-read for fans of Dickens' characters and stories, English literature, and 18th century history.

Author: Mary Dickens
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015997660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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