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Charles Dickens : a life / Claire Tomalin.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2011.Description: xlvii, 527 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594203091
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8
LOC classification:
  • B PR 4581 D548T 2011
Contents:
The inimitable The sins of the fathers A London education Becoming Boz The journalist Four publishers and a wedding 'Till death do us part' Blackguards and brigands Killing Nell Conquering America Setbacks Travels, dreams, and visions Crisis Dombey, with interruptions A home A personal history Fathers and sons Children at work Little Dorrit and friends Wayward and unsettled Stormy weather Secrets, mysteries, and lies The Bebelle life Wise daughters The Chief 'Things look like work again' Pickswick, Pecknicks, Pickwicks The remembrance of my friends
Summary: When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-492) and index.

The inimitable
The sins of the fathers
A London education
Becoming Boz
The journalist
Four publishers and a wedding
'Till death do us part'
Blackguards and brigands
Killing Nell
Conquering America
Setbacks
Travels, dreams, and visions
Crisis
Dombey, with interruptions
A home
A personal history
Fathers and sons
Children at work
Little Dorrit and friends
Wayward and unsettled
Stormy weather
Secrets, mysteries, and lies
The Bebelle life
Wise daughters
The Chief
'Things look like work again'
Pickswick, Pecknicks, Pickwicks
The remembrance of my friends

When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description.

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