Dickens
Abridged
$61.94
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2012
Summary
The abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd’s classic biography of Dickens, reissued with a stunning new cover look to celebrate Dickens’ bicentenary.
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 (an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099437093 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099437090 |
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | 11000th |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 526g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 39mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
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 *
A truly magnificent biography.This is the complete, the nonesuch, the definitive Dickens * Sheridan Morley *
A breathtaking feat of scholarship * The Times *
Landmark biography… fascinating and colourful detail… first rate * Daily Express *
Can’t imagine a better introduction to the life and work of the quintessential English novelist than Peter Ackroyd’s superb biography – Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London- The Biography, Thames- Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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