Charles Dickens

Michael Slater

RRP: £25.00

Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Publication Date : 31/08/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

An exploration of his personal and emotional life, his high-profile public activities, extensive travel, charitable works, amateur theatricals and astonishing productivity. Slater's account places each of Dickens' novels in context, and looks at the world that created them. Illustrated with many rare images.

Publisher's description:

A biography that reveals Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, it explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity.

ISBN: 9780300112078