The abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's classic biography of Dickens, reissued with a stunning new cover look to celebrate Dickens' bicentenary
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and
read this book.It supersedes all other Dickens biographies
*Anthony Burgess, Independent*
A truly magnificent biography.This is the complete, the nonesuch,
the definitive Dickens
*Sheridan Morley*
A breathtaking feat of scholarship
*The Times*
Landmark biography… fascinating and colourful detail… first
rate
*Daily Express*
Can't imagine a better introduction to the life and work of the
quintessential English novelist than Peter Ackroyd's superb
biography
*Mail on Sunday*
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