02635cam a2200301 a 4500 84406 84406 BJBSDDR 20230410132610.0 ta 110825s2011 nyuab b 001 0beng 9781594203091 DLC DLC eng eng B PR 4581 D548T 2011 823/.8 Tomalin, Claire, 1933- Charles Dickens : a life / Claire Tomalin. New York : Penguin Press, 2011. xlvii, 527 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-492) and index. The inimitable The sins of the fathers A London education Becoming Boz The journalist Four publishers and a wedding 'Till death do us part' Blackguards and brigands Killing Nell Conquering America Setbacks Travels, dreams, and visions Crisis Dombey, with interruptions A home A personal history Fathers and sons Children at work Little Dorrit and friends Wayward and unsettled Stormy weather Secrets, mysteries, and lies The Bebelle life Wise daughters The Chief 'Things look like work again' Pickswick, Pecknicks, Pickwicks The remembrance of my friends When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and also the power of personal virtue and the strength of ordinary people. In his last years Dickens drew adoring crowds, had met presidents and princes, and had amassed a fortune. Yet like his heroes, Dickens trod a hard path to greatness. His young life was overturned when his profligate father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens was forced into harsh factory work--but this led to his remarkable eye for all that was absurd, tragic, and redemptive in London life. This biography gives full measure to Dickens's stature--his virtues both as a writer and as a human being--while observing his failings in both respects with an unblinking eye.--From publisher description. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Crítica e interpretación Authors, English 19th century Biography. Autores ingleses Siglo XIX Biografías 1471 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 0 B PR 4581 D548T 2011 00000120528 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK