Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens

A Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, and a great novelist. This book paints a fresh portrait of Dickens, capturing the complex character of this great genius.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 131mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780141036939
• ISBN-10: 0141036931
• Artikelnr.: 35027539

Autorenporträt

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.