Dickens: a biography

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From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England. And no one has captured the rich texture of his life as colorfully and persuasively as Fred Kaplan in this acclaimed biography. 107 illustrations.

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Full title :Dickens : a biography / Fred Kaplan.

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Publication Date:1998.
Edition:Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication:Baltimore
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

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The Physical Object

Description:607 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:0801860180, 9780801860188
oclc:ocm39210058
LC Classification:PR4581
Dewey Decimal:B

Chap. 1 Scenes of his boyhood (1812-1822) -- Chap. 2 The hero of my own life (1822-1834) -- Chap. 3 The first coming (1834-1837) -- Chap. 4 Charley is my darling (1837-1841) -- Chap. 5 The emperor of cheerfulness (1842-1844) -- Chap. 6 An angelic nature (1844-1846) -- Chap. 8 No need for rest (1849-1853) -- Chap. 9 The sparkler of Albion (1853-1855) -- Chap. 10 Superflous fierceness (1855-1857) -- Chap. 11 My own wild way (1857-1859) -- Chap. 12 A splendid excess (1860-1864) -- Chap. 13 The sons of toil (1864-1868) -- Chap. 14 A castle in the other world (1867-1870).