Charles Dickens: A Life
Autor Claire Tomalinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2012
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock, and many more.
At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey.Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children.
From the award-winning author ofSamuel Pepys,Charles Dickens: A Lifepaints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. If you lovedGreat Expectations, Oliver TwistandA Christmas Carol, this book is invaluable reading.
'By far the most humane and imaginatively sympathetic account yet for the general reader' Amanda Craig, New Statesman
Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including:The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft;Shelley and His World;Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Manand, most recently,Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of theNew Statesmanand theSunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141036939
ISBN-10: 0141036931
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 24 pp b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141036931
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: 24 pp b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Claire
Tomalin
is
the
author
of
seven
highly
acclaimed
biographies,
includingSamuel
Pepys:
The
Unequalled
Self,which
was
the
2002
Whitbread
Book
of
the
Year.
Her
previous
book
on
Dickens,The
Invisible
Woman,
an
account
of
his
relationship
with
the
actress
Ellen
Ternan,
won
three
major
literary
prizes.
A
former
literary
editor
of
theNew
Statesmanand
theSunday
Times,
she
is
married
to
the
playright
and
novelist
Michael
Frayn.
Recenzii
"As Claire Tomalin demonstrates in her vivid and moving new biography, Dickens’s own life was rich in the attributes we call “Dickensian” — shameless melodrama, gargantuan appetites, reversals of fortune... To encompass this frenzy, Tomalin keeps the story racing. She brings Dickens to life in all his maddening contradictions... Dickens walks off the page, and the pace never flags. Tomalin accomplishes this resurrection in a mere 417 pages of text, supplemented by dozens of illustrations, several maps of Dickens’s London and a helpful dramatis personae... if you plan to read only one biography of the most popular Victorian writer, it should be this one."
--THE WASHINGTON POST
"Enormously ambitious... admirable... warmly sympathetic and often eloquent."
--Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOK
“Clear-eyed, sympathetic and scholarly, she spreads the whole canvas, alive with incident and detail, with places and people. She writes of publishers, illustrators, collaborators and all Dickens’s intersecting circles of friends and family. It is wonderfully done.”
--THE ECONOMIST
“[A] splendid history… Tomalin skillfully presents the chief trauma of Dickens' young life — being sent to work in a factory at age 12, after his father was imprisoned for debt — and suggests the ways it left a lasting mark, from his sympathy for the working class to his towering ambition and herculean work ethic.”
--SEATTLE TIMES
"[O]nward-driving, hypnotically vivid… the result of Claire Tomalin's unrivalled talent for telling a story and keeping a reader enthralled: long as the book is, I wanted more.”
--THE GUARDIAN (UK)
--THE WASHINGTON POST
"Enormously ambitious... admirable... warmly sympathetic and often eloquent."
--Joyce Carol Oates, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOK
“Clear-eyed, sympathetic and scholarly, she spreads the whole canvas, alive with incident and detail, with places and people. She writes of publishers, illustrators, collaborators and all Dickens’s intersecting circles of friends and family. It is wonderfully done.”
--THE ECONOMIST
“[A] splendid history… Tomalin skillfully presents the chief trauma of Dickens' young life — being sent to work in a factory at age 12, after his father was imprisoned for debt — and suggests the ways it left a lasting mark, from his sympathy for the working class to his towering ambition and herculean work ethic.”
--SEATTLE TIMES
"[O]nward-driving, hypnotically vivid… the result of Claire Tomalin's unrivalled talent for telling a story and keeping a reader enthralled: long as the book is, I wanted more.”
--THE GUARDIAN (UK)
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Award-winning author Tomalin sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written about Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles a literary leviathan of 19th-century England: Charles Dickens.
Award-winning author Tomalin sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written about Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles a literary leviathan of 19th-century England: Charles Dickens.