![]() ![]() From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire TomalinĬharles 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.Īt the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. ![]()
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