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  Dickens (Vintage books) (Paperback) By (author) Peter Ackroyd, Volume editor Jonathan Butler

  

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  Short Description for DickensDickens 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, but he also had a sense of loss and longing that would constantly appear in his work. This title takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 05 January 2012
  • Format: Paperback 624 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
  • ISBN 13: 9780099437093 ISBN 10: 0099437090
  • Sales rank: 51,053

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• A breathtaking feat of scholarship' The Times. 'I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and read this book. It supersedes all other Dickens biographies' Anthony Burgess, Independent. In Peter Ackroyd's abridged edition of his classic biography of Charles Dickens, the acclaimed biographer takes us to the heart of one of the world's greatest writers. From Dickens's birth in Portsmouth to his death at the age of just fifty-eight, Ackroyd explores the life of this renowned author and the hundreds of characters who were born with Dickens but didn't die with him, living on for ever in the pages of his books, on the radio and the television and film screens.