# Charles Dickens

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- Authors: [Claire Tomalin](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-tomalin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-693-9
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically 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. Claire Tomalin, author of Whitbread Book of the Year Samuel Pepys , paints an unforgettable portrait of Dickens, capturing brilliantly the complex character of this great genius. Charles Dickens: A Life is the examination of Dickens we deserve.