Charles Dickens: A Life

Kirjan Charles Dickens: A Life (2012) on kirjoittanut Claire Tomalin. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Penguin Publishing Group. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 608 sivua ja se on nidottu.

Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times. From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer's craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens' own pen.