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Charles Dickens : a life / Claire Tomalin.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR4581 .T66 2011
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Van Pelt Library PR4581 .T66 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomalin, Claire.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Authors, English--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- pages ; cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- The tumultuous life of England's greatest novelist, beautifully rendered by an unparalleled literary biographer. "Charles Dickens: A Life" gives full measure to Dickens' heroic stature--his huge virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye. 576 pp. 50,000 print.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781594203091
- 1594203091
- OCLC:
- 707969079
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