Format:
viii, 224 Seiten
,
20 cm
ISBN:
9781474619806
,
1474619800
Series Statement:
Great lives
Content:
A superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. The enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships has made him a figure of enduring fascination. In this biography Jane Smiley reveals Charles Dickens as his contemporaries would have done, getting to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works, showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels'
Note:
First published in Great Britain in 2002 by Weidenfeld & Nihcolson (0-297-60777-4). - This ppaerback edition publshed in 2021 ; First published in the USA in 2002 by Viking Penguin (0-670-03077-5). - Copyright © 2002 Jane Smiley
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
;
Biografie
Author information:
Smiley, Jane 1949-
