Dickens

Dickens

Abridged Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.

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. Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. 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. 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780099437093
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Edition: Abridged Edition
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 608
Weight: 508g
Height: 214mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 41mm